I believe we, the US, is a Constitutional Republic, and we vote Democratically.

The original design of the government was to have only 1/2 of 1 branch of government Democratically Elected. That being the House

The Senate was appointed by State Legislatures, this was changed with the 17th Amendment

The President is Chosen by Electorial College not a democratic vote (which I support BTW)

The Judicial Branch is Appointed for Life.

The Electoral College is one of the most significant aspects of our electoral system and hopefully will never be supplanted by popular vote.

It is what we want it to be, even if it may take 100 more years to get there.

From the 1828 (first edition) of Webster's dictionary:

> Republic: 1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.

So historically, a distinction was in fact made.

Here is Alexander Hamilton (a republican in the classical sense of the word) making the distinction very clearly:

> "We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Those who mean to form a solid republican government, ought to proceed to the confinges of another government. As long as offices are open to all men, and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism. But if we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#Debates_of_...