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Re:Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit ag... by aceofspades19 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:47PM (#9072432)
a constitutional republic is contained in the set of democratic governments. You could just as well say Canada is not a democracy, its a constitutional monarchy.
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Re:Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit ag... by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:59PM (#9072463)
More accurately, constitutional republics make up a set that overlaps the set of democratic governments. A Constitutional republic could have a nondemocratic constitution, so that set is not a subset of democratic governments. The US is, in constitutional form, all of: a federal republic, a democratic republic, and a representative democracy.
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