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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (73019)	10/9/2009 2:47:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 224729

"Democracy" and "Republic" are not mutually exclusive. A republic can be any system that doesn't have a monarch as the head of state. That would include even direct democracies, and "democracy" hasn't been limited to just direct democracies for a long time, even though that was the initial meaning of the word. 1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections merriam-webster.com 1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic> merriam-webster.com

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