Re: OT - Coulter

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Hall) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> > Contemporary English definitions of "Democracy" & "Republic" are
> > synonymous at the constitutional level.
> 
> Maybe in your dictionary, not in mine. 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=republic

Note that contemporary definitions of "democracy" do not exclude
electoral representation.  One would have to qualify the term as a
"direct" or "pure" democracy if referring to a government without
elected officials.

Because nation/state examples of true "democracy" have not existed for
thousands of years (if at all), the modern English use of "democracy"
assumes its contemporary republic nature.