Here we take what I guess historians would regard as a standard definition: things that happened after the French Revolution. That's the modern era, and that's also the era in which representative ...

According to Cambridge Dictionary, Representative democracy is a form of governance where the people elect individuals through free and fair elections to represent them in the legislative houses, make ...

Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as direct democracy, and "Republic" was used to ...