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These are not mutually exclusive but let's have a look at each word's meaning.

A republic is a country governed by elected representatives. The US is a republic.

Constitutional means that the government is bound by a constitution. The US has a constitutional form of government.

A democracy is a country governed by its citizen, with equal power. A difference is made between a pure democracy (aka direct democracy) where citizen directly make the decisions, or a representative democracy (aka indirect democracy), where citizen elect representatives to govern. The US is not a pure democracy. Is it a representative democracy? Some will say that it is not, because the power of the people's representatives is limited by the constitution. The majority cannot do things that are unconstitutional.

Bottom line: everybody agrees that the US is a republic, even a constitutional republic. Not everybody agrees that it is a democracy.

Note that this has very little connection with the Republican and Democratic parties. At this point these are merely names, with very little connection to the actual political positions of these parties.

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