Definitions of Democracy and Republic via:



Army training manual of 1929  PM 2000-25 titled Citizenship



Democracy: A government of the masses, authority derived through mass 

           meeting or any other form of direct expression; results in 

           mobocracy; attitude toward poverty is communistic negating   

           property rights; attitude toward law is that the will of the 

           majority shall regulate whether it be based upon deliberation or 

           governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or

           regard to consequences; its result is dem-o-gogism, license,

           agitation, discontent and anarchy.



Republic:  Authority is derived through the election by the people of public

           officials best suited to represent them. Attitude toward property

           is respect for laws and individuals rights and a sensible

           economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration

           of justice in accord with fixed principles that establish 

           evidence with a strict regard for consequences. A greater number

           of citizens and the extent of territory may be brought within its

           compass, it avoids the dangerous extremes of either tyranny or

           mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice

           contentment and progress, is a standard for of government 

           throughout the world.



In 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt required that all of these training 

manuals be suppressed and destroyed without explanation.