Representative Democracy, or Republic
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A representative democracy, or republic, has citizens elect officials to make policy decisions on their behalf rather than voting on every law directly.
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A citizen votes for a legislator who then votes on the bills that citizen never personally reviews.
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"Republic" and "representative democracy" name the same structure; this course treats them as synonyms rather than as competing terms.