Hmm. Not sure what the diff between democracy and republic is, but either or is good!
Communism, socialism, monarchy, all based on outdated and disreputed ways of seeing the world. The only systems that can, therefore, satiate all are those that are democratic and thus able to respond to the different, chaotic needs of people. But even these don't satiate all.
So in conclusion, government for the people can never truly be that, and must content itself with supporting the majority of people in an auxiliary role to those same people in their social structure. [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img]