... question of the day: what's the problem with democracy? ANSWER: a). orange bathroom syndrome - e.g., ... your boyfriend likes pink? You like yellow? Relegated to offer 'n compromise, no policy ever Pareto optimal, what do you two lovebirds ultimately wind up with but, an orange bathroom you mutually despise? - b). mob rule - e.g., ... Inalienable rights which cannot be rescinded by mob rule, count America's founding fathers somewhat higher up the IQ chart, more than a step ahead of our whacked out democrat friends. America is not (NOT) a pure democracy. America is a republic (e.g., representative democracy), sheltering inalienable rights. Replace the phrase, threat to democracy, with the phrase, mob rule, this is what our alarmist democrat friends are crying about. They want mob rule - c). electioneering - e.g., ... nobody does election rigging better, than California. Everything a shambles, roads so bad they shake the shims out of your calipers, textbook case of mob rule here in California, our democrat friends pretty much control everything. Circa 2020, California election rigging, gone nationwide: Tulsi Gabbard Drops TWO Huge Bombshells - modernity Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile
Better stated with i.e., as in "America is a republic (i.e., representative democracy)". You would use "e.g." if you were giving an example of something. The connection between 'republic' and 'representative democracy' is not that one is an example of the other, but that they are equivalent terms. "Direct democracy" would be something different, but there are very few of those, and people who've been to school generally already know America's the representative kind. Whether you prefer to say "representative democracy" or "republic" comes down to whether saying "people power" in Greek or "public thing" in Latin appeals more to you. Personally, both terms have always sort of tickled me. "People power" makes me picture Greeks shouting slogans, and "public thing" makes me picture Romans in a tavern trying to think up a name.
