***(Edited) What form of Government is the US *supposed* to be?

We were designed as a republic, but more recently, we have been leaning towards almost a dictatorship. We are venturing into socialism, so why not combine the two and get communism.

I can pull the pin and toss out Corporate Communism to chew on but hold that thought. We tend to have attributes of "all of the above". Lately we've been trending more toward socialist with more nanny state stuff. Constitutional Republic wasn't listed but that was a start that didn't stick. About the only Republic term that gets news traction are California and Texas that joined as Republics, hence can split into other states theoretically. A compliant population tends to let the Government "know betters" take freedom and money away. It's getting to the point where people think Constitutional types must live on Ruby Ridge. A great divide between what our country is vs. what it was vs. what it should be.

There's an argument out there that the Founders looked at religious, martial, and commercial governments. The first two were tossed because they always lead to tyranny so they actually set up the Constitution to describe the nation more as a Commercial Republic; I guess as good a term as any. Then the Amendments played catch-up on individual liberties, an attempt to dictate morality that failed, and then some bureaucratic clean up in more recent years. When all is said and done, it's whatever the Supreme Court says we are ultimately. That can be different from what any given word meant way back when.

Socialist Democracy in denial..