We do not need private interpretation of the Constitution. Even a fifth grader can see that these are not the same words.
Show me where do the words ``representative democracy`` occur in the Constitution!!!
``Article 4, Section 4 Republican Government ...a Republican Form of Government...``
US immigration Sercvice:= ``The Constitution establishes a system of government called “REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY`
The word ``republic`` is nowhere mentioned in the US Immigration booklet.
Thus they are not even using the words of the constitution to teach newly-to-be citizens. What the h is this crap?
To tell someone that a legal document has something in it but omits the words and verbally substitutes another word as true is fraud. Are you going to call this country a ``constitutional democracy`` as India does?? Or a democracy, but not a republic as Australia calls itself?? Give me a break!!
Now you want to redefine the US Constitution and the country? My family has been here since 1648 and we have always been taught by our teachers in school that we live in a republic.
If one does not want to uphold the Constitution, which, as one can read, is made up of WORDS!!- then find another constitution in another country but leave the U.S. Constitution alone!!
I will not dance to a new tune nor sing a new song.
Republic alone is meaningless. The USSR was a Republic in every sense of the word, but had a system of government far different than our own. There are at least a couple dozen forms of Republican government, with at least half a dozen still practiced. I could dispense with conformity altogether and start referring to the USA as a federation in shorthand, and be no less accurate than those who refer to us solely as a democracy or solely as a republic.