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Do you describe a fast car as car fast.
The adjective comes before the noun. The historical timeline has little to do with the descriptive term.
I live in a Democracy that is not a republic. The individuals rights are held as important.
The majority will is only to the legislature as in your country. There is little difference between the two definitions.
A group of people cannot take over your property (by vote) and declare it a park as that would be against the individuals right to home and the freedom to own. This can only be done by governments with justification and due compensation.
Can your government take land from individuals for the benefit of all with just compensation. It can. (read your constitution).
The constitution of a country sets the boundaries of what its collective can and cannot do.
Your Republic is based on the collective (states) co-operation to maintain and go forward. Not too different from us as one of our states wanted to disassociate themselves from the rest of OZ. After spending Billions over many years (eastern states building), the resource rich state of Western Australia decided that we should have no part of its mineral wealth. They did not succeed in reforming to a new country.
The original point being that you are a republic and not a democracy is minimal in its arguement. Yes you are a Republic with democratic principles, ergo a democratic republic.
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