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		danesparza on Jan 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travele... It's not (nor has it ever been) a democracy. It's a Federal Republic. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

welterde on Jan 12, 2018 [–]

Democracy and federal republic are not mutually exclusive (in modern usage anyway). Far from it - being a federal republic is just one of many variants of democracies.

The USA - like other countries, such as Germany or Mexico - are both a (representative) democracy and a federal republic.

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