Nobody said the other qualifiers weren't true, you're not just moving the goalposts, you're playing in a different field. You said we aren't a democracy, we are, idiot. We are the very definition of a representative democracy.
Christ, you just keep batting 0 don't you? Definition of Republic:
Definition of REPUBLIC
a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
(2) : a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government
b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law
(2) : a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government
c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit
- the French FourthRepublic
2: a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity
: a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia
By the way a PM can be 'head of state'. which only means a person who holds the highest position in national government, want proof? Here is another definition:
the definition of head of state
noun
1.
the person who holds the highest position in a national government:
a meeting of heads of state.
I know, mind blown, amiright?
I guess you were wrong about that, but who by now would be surprised?
Here you are moving those goal posts, nobody said we were a pure democracy, quite the contrary actually.
Try understanding the links I post first before commenting.
Jesus, we're not a democracy? **** you.