The phrase "a representative republic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a form of government in which officials are elected to represent the people.
Example: "The United States is often referred to as a representative republic, where citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf."
Alternatives: "a representative democracy" or "an elected republic".
I have worked in Michigan's prisons for more than 22 years and can say without hesitation that I would not want any convicted felon voting in any election that could determine the state's future, nor that of my family.The United States is a representative republic, and a vote in any public election represents the will of law-abiding citizens.
"This is a representative republic with heightened democratic principles".
The trouble is that the compassionists always settle for second best - a representative republic of understanding care, instead of a direct democracy.
But we live in a representative republic with a weird electoral system.
Since when do we have a pure democracy - we have a representative republic.
Believe it or not, America is a representative republic, not a democracy.
Those who remember their civics classes will note that we have not a direct but a representative democracy (or a republic).
The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy whose current constitution was promulgated in 2010.
The opposition civil war alliance in 1990s Tajikistan and its failure to turn that republic in either a representative democracy or a sharia-ruled Islamic state was the perfect avenue to conflate and thus deny post-Soviet Central Asia's two most vibrant, yet entirely ideologically divergent, human groundswells.
It was reorganized as a centralized representative republic with its capital at Bogotá; Bolívar became president and Francisco de Paula Santander vice president.
Why aren't we out there protesting for our right to a truly representative republic?
