There are no pure democracies left on this planet. Not to my knowledge anyway. But there are a lot of democracies.
The system we (both the USA, the Netherlands and pretty much everybody else) have is called representational democracy. We the people chose someone to represent us in the votes that normally would be left to all of us. They decide by majority vote.
You're a republic because you're not lead by a monarch and have a say in how it's governed.
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Date: 2009-07-07 02:00 pm (UTC)The system we (both the USA, the Netherlands and pretty much everybody else) have is called representational democracy. We the people chose someone to represent us in the votes that normally would be left to all of us. They decide by majority vote.
You're a republic because you're not lead by a monarch and have a say in how it's governed.