User blog comment:Reximus55/Government Series - Introduction/@comment-32656-20131017090752/@comment-1789156-20131023142827

I didn't modify the definitions, i just posted the first ones that came up. Notice in your own definitions it states " government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system" (Democracy) vs. "a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them" (Republic). As you can see they are clearly different.