re: #261 HappyWarrior

I have no idea. The way I look at it is we combine forms of both. We’re a Republic in that we elect our officials but we’re a democracy in that we can and do vote on items too.

There have been plenty of republics (not even getting into “Peoples’ Republics”) that were the last thing but democratic: Venice for example. I think they think a “democracy” is only like Periclean Athens, where public officials are chosen strictly by lot, like that guy wanted to bomb the National Mall in support of.