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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Mike Huben]] [[Category:Historical Revisionism]] [[Category:Disrupting Arguments]] [[Category:Democracy]] {{DES | des = This libertarian/conservative meme is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation equivocation fallacy], intended to disrupt statements by their opposition. It is indisputable that the US is a republic. It is also indisputable that the US is a nation with democratic elections, making it a type of democracy. | show=}} <!-- insert wiki page text here --> Elections are built right into the Constitution, even if the word democracy is not used. The Constitution and the [[Federalist Papers]] (at great length) avoid using the term democracy for elections to help make clear the difference between ancient "pure" democracy and the new hybrid which they propose. The US is a particular type of republic: a sovereign, constitutional, federal, presidential, representative democratic, liberal republic. When Americans use the term "democracy", that's what they are talking about, not direct democracy. Direct democracy does exist in state governance, but only as a very small, secondary role. The words "democratic" and "democracy" have evolved in popular usage over two centuries of experience with governments based on the will of the people rather than aristocracy, dictators and oligarchs. It is dishonest of libertarians to ignore this to "correct" opponents. An honest approach would be to point out characteristics in addition to indirect democracy: but the reader response would be "Well, duh, everybody knows that!" instead of "Ooo, you nailed him!" <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- otherwise, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|title=The US is a republic, not a democracy.|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=The US is a republic, not a democracy.|quotes=true}}
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