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by IncRnd 1763 days ago
You may not be aware of the spectrum, but there are plenty of forms of government between democracy and authoritarian.

For instance, there can be an indirect democratic republic that is configured in a way to protect the rights of the minority against the desires of the majority.
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mantas 1763 days ago
In a democracy, any configuration can be changed given a qualified majority. If there's such configuration that it can't be changed by a qualified majority, then it's not a democracy.

Indirect democratic republic sounds painfully similar to people's democratic republics. Or infamous Putin's "controlled democracy" in Russia.

How would limited indirect democracy differ from autocracy such as in Russia or Belarus?

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IncRnd 1763 days ago
It seems that you aren't aware that The United States is such a Republic, properly called a Constitutional Republic.
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mantas 1763 days ago
I'm not from US so naturally don't know every single bit about US...

My country is a constitutional republic too. But here any article in constitution can be changed with a constitutional majority. Yes, it's not a simple 50%+1 majority democracy, but it's still a democracy where the population can implement whatever changes they wish. Given that large enough part of population signs off on it.

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