American, Australian, Canadian, Brazilian and Swiss are not languages). Using the term Flemish for the official language in Flanders is therefore not correct: the official language in Flanders is (standard) Dutch.ap showing the dialects spoken in the Benelux: many people in Flanders speak a dialect and the common Flemish, and understand spoken Dutch; in writing, the dialects are hardly used, while Flemish and Dutch are nearly identical in this regard. Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands [ËbÉlÉ£is ËneËdÉrlÉnts].
Representative - The other type of democracy is a representative democracy. This is where the people elect representatives to run the government. Another name for this type of democracy is a democratic republic. The United States is a representative democracy.
By popular usage, however, the word democracy come to mean a form of government in which the government derives its power from the people and is accountable to them for the use of that power. In this sense the United States might accurately be called a democracy.However, there are examples of pure democracy at work in the United States today that would probably trouble the Framers of the Constitution if they were still alive to see them.n this sense the United States might accurately be called a democracy. However, there are examples of pure democracy at work in the United States today that would probably trouble the Framers of the Constitution if they were still alive to see them.