It’s a democratic republic. I have a distaste for conservative arguments to begin with but the wheedling pedantry of this one they always trout out to ignore the word “democratic” in the description to justify anti democratic measures always manages to annoy me just a little bit harder
Federal rebulic. It seems that Federal word is way too often forgotten. Maybe first amendment to constitution moving forward should be getting rid of it and just moving everything to single level, currently federal, but after not.