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A Republic - it differs from a democracy where the people vote dirrectly for the issues. The US is a Republic (You said so in the Pledge of Allegiance) --- one Republic, under God, indivisible,....and so on and so on

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It is called a representative democracy.

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Democracy......

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republicism

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democracy

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