@AaronMk
So in all practically, a constitutional republic is no different than just plain democracy?
Because I often hear many people say that America isn’t truly democratic since it’s a constitutional republic but if the only difference is in name then I’m guessing it’s all the same.
America being both at once a Democracy and a Republic dates back to John Adams where at least nominally it’s a democracy because it derives its mandate from a politically enfranchised class who vote on representatives who act in Congress with one another making it a Republic. The question that hangs over American history is how much of the people should be democratically enfranchised, since you can do some serious number work to prove blacks are under franchised than whites not because of legal recognition or lack there of - blacks and whites are a vote of 1 - but because of a series of interlapping conditions and institutions the practice of enfranchisement means black votes are mathematically of a lower value than the white vote. As a starting condition black Americans may not be voting as much as whites, which infers an entire series of intersecting problems related to the African-American community.
In a Marxist level, the issues if American democratic franchise is weakened or distorted by the relationship many people have to wealth and value generation where a business owner having more economic value has a political weight higher than anyone else, since the access to capital and wealth gives them more weight over working class majorities; they can afford the time to take off to be a part of politics. Like wise the appeals of either partys’ mainstream pillars is often to “middle class America” which can be taken to at least mean the small business owner, so by language there’s a readily apparent appeal to politics only ever being for the petite-bougousie at least, with the mandates to rule being given by the electorate at large.
There probably isn’t much to change about the US government itself to make it more democratic aside from unleashing the historical spectre of Revolutionary Catalonia which is still derided by people in its tradition of radical politics as having something of a structure closer to America than the supposed anti-nation it was supposed to be on the surface. What would change is the level of political access people have to American politics, and a break down and restructuring of political capital, which is related to to the economic capital of the US.