Is the United States an indirect democracy or a republic?
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The answer to this question is going to depend almost completely on how your book defines a republic. As the link below tells us,
there is no consensus among scholars ... as to exactly what a republic is.
Given this fact, it is very hard to say if the United States is a republic or an indirect democracy.
In many ways, the United States is an indirect democracy. The people of the United States do not tend to vote directly on...
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