Originally posted by Mr_Trek:And in popular language, the US is a democracy. In bureaucrat language, it is not. But we don't care a lot about the language we use do we?
Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:Dont know if you haven't realized it by now, but I really dont care about grammer, and spelling.

By the way, the United States ARE in fact a democracy. It's not a simple representative democracy, I'll give you that: it's but a constitutional republic. But as a whole, the system is Democracy (as oposed to Dictatorship, Theocracy, Anarchism, etc) -based.