us is a constitutional republic not a democracy
But there is no basis for saying that the United States is somehow ânot a democracy, but a republic.â âDemocracyâ and ârepublicâ arenât just words that a speaker can arbitrarily define to mean something (e.g., defining democracy as âa form of government in which all laws are made directly by the peopleâ).nd the United States is therefore also a constitutional republic. Indeed, the United States might be labeled a constitutional federal representative democracy. But where one word is used, with all the oversimplification that this necessary entails, âdemocracyâ and ârepublicâ both work.