What is a potential problem with a republic

A republic, while being a democracy, can still have it's faults. Since in a republic, you would have representatives for office and other positions, the person, like say a president, can abuse power to do bad things. An example of this is how Donald Trump abused power and when he wasn't elected or his senators were not elected, he told people to go fight.

Explanation: I passed stuff

the tariff was created to protect industry in the northern part of the united states. industries in the north were being driven out of business by imported goods that were priced at a low rate. the goal was to protect these industries   by taxing the goods.