 There are people on the right that go, we're a republic, not a democracy. We're a republic. We've got democratic institutions. The Romans went with a republic. The Greeks went with a democracy. In practice, they were the same, but they were operated in different ways. The Greeks were a direct democracy. We're not a direct democracy. We're a representative democracy. We have other institutions that constrain the democracy, much like the Romans did. We went with a republic.