User blog comment:Reximus55/Government Series - Introduction/@comment-5169980-20131023181218

Both of them are maybe not the same but at least similar, a republic is rule by a president elected by the people and democracy litteraly mean in rule by the people, like a republic.

A Constitutionnal monarchy is almost the same except that there is a symbolic monarch who on paper is the leader of the country but the real power is in the hand of someone elected by the people. If I take Britain there is the queen, very symbolic and holding the United Kingdom togheter.

However, the power is in the hand of the Prime minister, the House of Commons, the house of the Lord and the judiciary house. All of those have their counterpart in the United State and the queen, do not get really involved in politic to stay ceremonial. Canada and Australia among many other countries of the Commonswealth of Nation are constitutionnal monarchy but the queen has absolutely no right to even interfer in our politic despite being the queen of those nations.

Anyway, didn`t democracy have many definitions depending of the one you choose?: classical definition or modern definition.