• aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    No, it’s also constitutional and a federation. Actually those two are part of what make it significantly less democratic.

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      the US is and has been the model for Liberal Democracy around the world since its creation, and anyone who says different is a traitor and/or a liar

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        Mmm, not really. The structure has a lot of mistakes in it by virtue of being the first modern democracy. For example, the Senate giving every state two representatives regardless of size.

        Most other democracies opted for a parliamentary system, where the chief executive is also the head of the legislative branch. This includes democracies where the United States was directly involved in setting up its structure, like Germany, Japan, and Iraq. Our crazy system should be taken more as a warning than an instruction manual.

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        It is not a democracy, again, because of the federal and constitutional limitations