US Government!!!?

Question

What type of government is the US. Is it a democracy or republic???

Answer 1

A crappy 1

Answer 2

The United States Government is a representative democratic-republic.

Answer 3

Neither it is a Bureaucratic Republic at the best. The Civil War made the county a Federal republic in which the Federal governing body was all powerful. but Paper work is king.

Answer 4

It was created as and is supposed to be a Republic, a Constitutional Republic more exactly, sometimes called a democratic republic or liberal democracy.

The term democracy is quite confusing without it being qualified, as stated in the World Book quote below. Democracy as understood by Aristotle and the Founding Fathers was mobocracy, and ought be feared as a form of government.

Though the current state of government seems to be looking more like a Socialist or Totalitarian Democracy
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_democracy

"Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
- James Madison, `The Federalist Papers'

“Democracy was Aristotle's name for corrupt rule by the majority, and it was to be feared as a dangerous kind of mob rule.
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The term democracy can be confusing because some nations that have kept the forms of monarchy and aristocracy, such as the United Kingdom and Japan, actually function as democracies. On the other hand, some nations calling themselves democracies or republics are not democratic at all.” - The World Book Encyclopedia, 2005

The following definitions come from The Soldiers Training Manual issued by the War Department, November 30, 1928:
"TM2000-25: 118-120 DEMOCRACY: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic- negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

TM 2000-25: 120-121 REPUBLIC: Authority is derived throughout the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. "

Alexis de Tocqueville: "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

Thomas Jefferson: "...judges should be withdrawn from the bench whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or fortune; but it saves the Republic..."

"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural, 4-Mar-1801

"A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."
-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers (No. 46)

Answer 5

It's a democratic republic, that is, voters choose (democracy) their representatives (republic).

Or you could call it a representative democracy.

Answer 6

Democratic republic.

Answer 7

It was suppose to be a little of both during its founding. The people voted for representative which voted the senators. However over the years it has grown more direct in representation and therefore subject more and more to mob rule politics. The presidency is decided by the electoral college, good thing we still have that our we might've had Al Gore for president(shiver).

Answer 8

It's a representative democracy.

Answer 9

US is a democray and a republic. Our democracy is the most advanced in the world.

Answer 10

republic
It is controlled by law, if voters pass a law and it is found not to be "constitutional", then that law is overturned, for example California prop 187, passed by a landslide and was overturned by the supreme court, this law took all aid from illegals.

This is the way the founding fathers wanted the US to work, because people do not always think, or vote, with their heads.

Answer 11

It is a watered down version of what used to be the epitome of what a free country should be like. But due to the wonderfull invention of Political Correctness, we are made a mockery because everyone knows now that we will cave to whoever can claim the biggest lawsuit.

so our governments hands are tied by trial lawyers and out of work liberals.