I just had a quick on-line discussion with a liberal on this one. He was spewing "Yes, really scary stuff. Back channel Republicans have been talking about the US as a “republic”, not a democracy for some time. I always thought it was just semantics, now I’m thinking this is what they had in mind all along. A republic like North Korea." I let him know that we are a Constitutional Republic. Even the google says we are. He did not respond. He knows I'm right once he googled it. HA!