I'm just going by what I learned in school.
--- Betty B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/27/2000 8:40:05 AM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > It's a democratic republic.
>
> I take it that you mean a "democracy within a
> republic," as stated in William
> Tyler Page's American Creed.