A lot of that is mostly state-level-based." Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a ...

For at least two reasons. One is the fact that a republic is a subset of democracy, which renders the argument wrong both ...

For at least two reasons. One is the fact that a republic is a subset of democracy, which renders the argument wrong both factually and logically. Further, most people who make that argument cite ...