Terthna
Professional Lurker
They're really not; but it's not surprising you think that way. Most do.The two terms are effectively interchangeable when you aren't being pedanticly technical.
They're really not; but it's not surprising you think that way. Most do.The two terms are effectively interchangeable when you aren't being pedanticly technical.
*shrugs*They're really not; but it's not surprising you think that way. Most do.
In a Democracy, everyone is involved in every decision, and the majority rules; whereas in a Republic, we are instead governed by elected representatives, who are themselves constrained in what they can and cannot do by a series of laws set down by our constitution. As an example, if we lived in a Democracy rather than a Republic, we wouldn't have something like the Electoral Collage; which was designed to curtail the tyranny of the majority over the minority.*shrugs*
democracy: 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
republic: a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
There really isn't all that much difference between the two aside from the fact that a democracy can have a monarch while a republic never does.
To be fair people really should know basic economics