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The phrase "not a democracy" is unfortunate because its meaning within the slogan is "not a [[direct democracy]]" but it can easily be taken as "not a democracy at all". Critics of the US, who want to accuse it falsely of not being democratic love to exploit this ambiguity.
The phrase "not a democracy" is unfortunate because its meaning within the slogan is "not a [[direct democracy]]" but it can easily be taken as "not a democracy at all". Critics of the US, who want to accuse it falsely of not being democratic love to exploit this ambiguity.
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The phrase '''not a democracy''' is sometimes used to point out the difference between [[direct democracy]] and [[representative democracy]]. The phrase can be misleading, if someone uses it to argue that [[representative democracy]] is not [[democracy]] at all - or that [[direct democracy]] is the only real type of democracy.