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Democracy is usually defined as government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. The United States is a representative democracy. The USA was founded as a federal republic. A republic is usually defined as a state in which the supreme power rest sin the body of the citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chose directly or indirectly by them.