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If we are being needlessly pedantic, the traditional US definition of a "republic" is a democracy, but just not a direct democracy (I'm not aware of any modern countries that are), which I suspect is what you were trying to point out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy



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