I have a question about this phrase: "The United States was founded as a republic, not a democracy."
I think my first reaction was to go the dictionary but there does not appear to be a special US definition of those words. A bit more googling reveals that the phrase has its origin in the federalist papers. At the time, republic and democracies hardly existed and the words had not yet received their current meaning.
What I don't get it is why the phrase - centuries later - keeps being thrown around as if it had a sensible contemporary meaning. What are kids in the US taught about the subject?
I think my first reaction was to go the dictionary but there does not appear to be a special US definition of those words. A bit more googling reveals that the phrase has its origin in the federalist papers. At the time, republic and democracies hardly existed and the words had not yet received their current meaning.
What I don't get it is why the phrase - centuries later - keeps being thrown around as if it had a sensible contemporary meaning. What are kids in the US taught about the subject?
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