We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

Every functioning democracy depends on certain essentials, but none more basic than consistent participation. For the ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is of a different opinion. “Of ...

I write to challenge a Letter to the Editor claiming our founders used the terms republic and democracy interchangeably. Quite the contrary. The authors of the Constitution did not equate ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

From an oligarchy to a democracy to a constitutional monarchy, there are many ways government can operate. The government is a representative democracy, meaning citizens vote for their government ...

When politicians state,”We are not a democracy, we are a republic,” it makes me think that they are either uneducated on the subject or are just trying to confuse and scare people. They are correct in ...

In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...