Constitutional Republic Or Democracy?

The first government in the United States was formed in 1789. The United States began as one of the world’s first modern constitutional Republics. Over time, the United States government has grown to be a complex system encompassing many different institutions. A “Constitutional Republics refer to a form of government, where the head of state and other officials are representatives of the people (“Constitutional Republic”).” The Constitutional Republic is classified as a “government of law,” meaning the United States is to be governed according to established law regardless of race, position, and religion.

Many people believe that the United States is accurately described solely as a democracy. While not totally inaccurate, the United States government is more complex than a classical

Particularly in recent years, our elections have been non-representative – even undemocratic – but we retain the right to practice what we want due to the constitutional democracy. Our identity as a constitutional republic has been renewed from the previous elections. The president was elected by government representatives through the Electoral College rather than directly by the people, which cements our government’s classification as not a democratic government (Gore). Even though we are nominally a democratic country, we are not practicing true democracy. The last presidential elections showed that we have a political system in which the majority maintains absolute power by means of “democratic” elections (Horowitz). Some Americans argue that we should be governed only as a Commonwealth rather than of federal and Constitutional democracy. The term Commonwealth does not describe a state by specific political status or legal relationship. Each of the modern states governed as a Commonwealth has carried over from their formations as British