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The Pros And Cons Of A Republican-Democratic Government

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Did you know that the U.S has the oldest constitution in the world? A constitution is a framework for a government and our government has many different parties of government. Some of them include the Republican and the Democrats. However, James Madison, who is the “father of the government,” stated that our government is a “Republican-Democratic” government. Why do we need a republican-democratic government? To begin, the Republican government works by promoting a representative and the Democratic government works by listening to the citizen’s opinion and work by their opinion. If you add the two ideas, it becomes the republican-democratic government like mentioned above. The idea of a republican-democratic works by promoting leader to listen

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