Read This Whole Post before you Dismiss it as 'Just another Word-Nerd Trope'

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because it starts out with the old political trope, "The United States is not 'a Democracy,' it is 'a Democratic Republic.'" Oh, we HAVE a democracy; and it is mostly this: we each DECIDE--every moment--to abide by- & uphold 'the law of the land' (our cities' laws, our states' laws, our country's laws). And oh! if any of us DECIDE to go against those laws, our fellow citizens WILL see to it that we are stopped & punished (the whole "if you see something, say something"). That's why they say our court-system works "under the rule-of-law." 'The law' is the set of rules that PEOPLE wrote and approved. Those people are 'the republic'---literally "re-public." Most of them were 'democratically elected'--the 'public' voted that they were the best representation of the community. We voted for them because we believed that 'whatever laws they would write or approve-of' would be the laws that WE would write or approve-of in their place.