Originally posted by: Zebo
And I'm not sure why people like to quibble over definitions, a constitutional republic is a type of democracy. That it's not a "direct" democracy does'nt change that fact every branch of our government derives it's power from "majority rule" by definition is a democracy.
If every branch derived it's power from "majority rule", then we wouldn't have benefits for the minority. This is a fundamental difference between a republic and a democracy, and is an example of why a reupblic is *not* a form of democracy. They overlap in many ways, but not in this fashion.