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What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?
Democracy quite simply put by Benjamin Franklin is "2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner"

Basically a Constitutional Republic is a government run (hopefully) within a set of rules outlined in a document such as the Constitution of the United States of America and a Democracy is pure majority rule which seems fine and dandy until you're on the short end of a 51-49% split and realize you're at the mercy of the 51%.
They appear the same thing. Majority rule even at 51% or 2 wolves over 1 sheep.
In a Constitutional Republic the sheep has inalienable rights: life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, ability to own land. The sheep also has the right to bear arms. So 51% have the say, but the sheep is protected under the rule of law.
In a democracy a person should have all those rights anyway.