The elected officials in the white house and many other elected officials refer to the united states as a democracy, and it is far from a democracy. In fact the constitution never refers to the united states as a democracy but as a republic. the founding fathers of our country created America as a republic and our elected officials need to stop referring to it as a democracy and recognize we have a republican form of government. Article 4 section 4 of the united states constitution states "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence"



