[dragonwriter]

“A republic with democratically elected representatives” (like “a monarchy in which practical authority is durably assigned to a body of democratically elected representatives”) is an example of a representative democracy, which is not only a kind of democracy, it's by far the most common kind of democracy.

[sanderjd]

Bah, this part of the thread is stuck in the weeds debating definitions; my real point is in my initial comment.