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  2. Democracy in America - Wikipedia

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    In the United States the majority governs in the name of the people, as is the case in all the countries in which the people is supreme. Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph. Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces.

  3. Politics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    While not characterizing the United States as an "oligarchy" or "plutocracy" outright, Gilens and Page give weight to the idea of a "civil oligarchy" as used by Jeffrey A. Winters, saying, "Winters has posited a comparative theory of 'Oligarchy,' in which the wealthiest citizens—even in a 'civil oligarchy' like the United States—dominate ...

  4. Divided government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, divided government describes a situation in which one party controls the White House (executive branch), while another party controls one or both houses of the United States Congress (legislative branch). Divided government is seen by different groups as a benefit or as an undesirable product of the model of governance ...

  5. Democratic republic - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the American Revolution in what is now the United States—and before the coming of age of the "crowned republics" of constitutional monarchies in the United Kingdom and other European countriesdemocracy and republic were "used more or less interchangeably", [6] and the concepts associated with representative democracy and hence ...

  6. Democracy - Wikipedia

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    The United States Constitution of 1787 is the oldest surviving, still active, governmental codified constitution. The Constitution provided for an elected government and protected civil rights and liberties, but did not end slavery nor extend voting rights in the United States, instead leaving the issue of suffrage to the individual states. [103]

  7. Opinion: Why Speaker Johnson says America is not a democracy

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    Merriam-Webster’s definition of democracy is “government by the people; especially rule of the majority.” That’s the way most Americans experience elections: The person with the most votes ...

  8. Demonyms for the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States itself is called Usono, similar to Usonia. Only in formal contexts is the United States referred to by the long-form official name Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko or Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Nord-Ameriko (United States of North America). L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, used the Usono terms as early as 1910. [17]

  9. Too many Americans want a dictatorship, not democracy ... - AOL

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    But read as a whole, the Constitution also states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, … the Members of the several State ...