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Barbara Clark Smith, Curator, Division of Political History, Smithsonian Institution

UNBELIEVABLE: A democracy or a republic history shows that some americans are asking the wrong question - The Untold Story

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A Harper's Weekly image of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776. MPI/Getty Images

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic?

For years, advocates have argued the point.

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