Sure if Wikipedia is your source. And by that definition you would be ok if 51% of the population decided to kill the other 49%? Sorry A republic is MUCH different than a Democracy. In a Republic nothing can outvote your individual rights, they are unalienable. In other words 51% could not vote to kill the other 49% because the 49% have rights to life, just as do the 51% majority, which is where the "Common Law" definition comes into. I am using that term loosely to illustrate the fact that "Common Law" is natural to all men. We all know killing others or causing others harm is NOT good. I am not using "Common Law" term as opposed to statutory law, constitutional law, or case law. Read the context of the post before trying to discredit someone.

Hey wanna see something neat? Go look at a copy of the Constitution, Article IV section 4 states "The United States shall Guarantee to every State in this union a Republican form of government..."

Wanna see something else? Read the Declaration Of Independence. Your answers are in those documents. Now go ahead and tell me again how the US is a "Democracy" when the LAW OF THE LAND says it is NOT!

A Republic is just a Democracy with no monarch huh? I laugh at this premise. So many people who have been brainwashed by the propaganda on TV and in the books your were taught in school. You do know that history did not really happen the way you were taught right?

Not trying to be a jerk here, but when I can prove you wrong I will.

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