Analysis: Why Is Our National Government A Federal Democratic Republic?
Why is our national government a Federal Democratic Republic? Well my most simple answer for this is. We are a Federal Democratic Republic because the citizens are the ones that have the power, and the government itself is ran through elected officials. Or at least that's what we like to tell ourselves. The politics of this country work in a peculiar way, since usually the person who has the most funded campaign, is the one who wins, and the ones who tend fund a politicians campaign usually happen to be big corporations so they can call in favors later. So to some extent our elections are bought. Whoever has the most money can travel to more places, make more billboards, bumper stickers, commercials, etc. they have more resources to tell