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adventured on June 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Larry Page addresses PRISM

The US was based on the ideas of a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.

silenteh on June 10, 2013 [–]

Right, there are different forms of democracies. From this chart I see that US is categorized under Full Democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Democracy_Index_2012_gree... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

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