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    Clarence Page: Are we a ‘democracy’ or a ‘republic’? How about both?

    by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency Nov 03, 2020 3 minutes

    Are we a “republic” or a “democracy?” Every time I think this question — a golden oldie for grade school civics classes, high school debate teams and call-ins by C-SPAN viewers — has gone away, it pops up again.

    Its latest life comes to us from the Twitter fingers of Republican Sen. Mike Lee, a rising conservative star from Utah, who in a series of tweets during the recent vice presidential debate, declared, “We’re not

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