Stop acting like we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic. We’re both.

I see this post constantly. “We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic.”

We are both a representative democracy and a constitutional republic. Both can be true, and both ARE true. It’s like you guys never took social studies or any American history course whatsoever. We just aren’t a direct democracy and to my knowledge, such a thing has never existed on a large scale. Ancient Athens is all I can think of, but that was excluding women and slaves, etc. in a tiny, tiny area. In modern days, the name of the game is a mix between public participation and practical governance.

In a representative democracy, citizens elect officials to make decisions on their behalf, while a republic emphasizes the rule of law and protects individual rights through the Constitution. We are both. These concepts work together to ensure that both majority rule and minority rights are respected. Why this evades so many people on here is beyond me.