Terror attack in Istanbul, Turkey...

[adosorken]

Interesting Agamemnus...the only articles which claim America to be a "representative democracy" are

(1) an opinion by William Meyers
(2) an uneducated man named Tom Huppi (who???)

The remaining articles only speak of what a representative democracy is. However, take a gander at these resources:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=republic
This is what the US is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy
This is what individual states are.

http://www.senate.gov/~byrd/speech-repub.htm
This outlays exactly what the US government is.

http://www.nps.gov/liho/writer/1864.htm
President Lincoln on the 1864 Presidential Election, where he clearly names the USA as a Republic.

http://www.house.gov/bernie/town_meeting...hool2.html
A speech by Matt Sheldon, representing Bernard Sanders, former mayor of Burlington Vermont (where I spent 11 years of my life), classifying the US as a representative democracy. This document is laden with non-political rhetoric and personal opinions, hence it is wholly inadmissible as legitimate.

http://www.archives.gov/national_archive...story.html
How the US became a Republic, in detail.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fact...os/us.html
From the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, CLEARLY listing the United States of America as a CONSTITUTION-BASED (which means 'limited government') FEDERAL REPUBLIC with STRONG DEMOCRATIC TRADITION.

Notice that all of my links are actual legitimate sources, and yours...well...aren't.