What Eugene Volokh thinks about democracy
American legal scholar; Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law. Founded The Volokh Conspiracy blog in 2002, hosted at Reason since 2017, where he writes on free speech, guns and the courts.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Eugene Volokh has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI often hear people argue (often quite militantly) that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that's a false dichotomy.
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Their wordsThe United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it's only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.