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== Republic vs. Democracy ==
Since the United States is a republic, you will occasionally find people trying to tell you that the United States "is not a democracy." This may or may not be true, since a republic and a democracy are technically two different forms of government, but a republic can still use democratic processes. So ask the person doing the claiming what he means before nodding sagely. The essential issue here is that the founders thought direct democracy (after the fashion of, say, [[Ancient Greece|ancient Athens]]) was a generally bad idea; for example, [[Thomas Jefferson]] claimed
== The Fifty States ==
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