>>27339 PB
That is nothing but a old-school slide.
Demos+Kratia= "Rule of the People" (Greek)
Res+Publica= "An Affair of the Public" (Latin)
Same diff.
'Constitutional Republic' IS the most precise description, but you are on a semantic slide.
It's like the Gunfags who go apeshit when someone calls a 'magazine' a 'clip'. Magazine is correct, but everyone knew what 'clip' meant.
Love me some Gunfags (no homo).
Love me some Constitutional Republic (so long as it derives its just powers from the consent of the governed).
Just my $0.02
(There is theoretically a so-called 'direct democracy', but it cannot exist in reality. All actual democracies are some form of representative democracy, like ours.)