Right. Republic is what we have not a democracy. The word slip that people use on this issue is annoying at least and is more likely to be nefarious. This country is not founded on the majority determining the rights of the minority: that would be a direct democracy and honestly what one of the two major parties would live to see. The Founding fathers set us up as a Republic to protect the rights of the minority because they knew the result of mob rule and it’s never pretty.