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When politicians state,”We are not a democracy, we are a republic,” it makes me think that they are either uneducated on the subject or are just trying to confuse and scare people.

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most ...

In any case, average support for representative democracy in the United States is not low. A 2017 Pew survey found 86 percent of Americans favored it. That was 10 points above the average among ...