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To: Road Walker who wrote (224174)	3/15/2005 8:01:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

The traditional definition of a republic is "A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president." We certainly are that. Sometimes it is taken to mean "A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them" or "A nation that has such a political order." That is probably what you mean when you say "we are a republic", and again you are right. However that doesn't mean we are not a democracy. One of the definitions of democracy is " Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives." dictionary.reference.com Republic and democracy are not mutually exclusive. Tim