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Who or That?

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The answer is 'who'.

'Who' should be used--not 'that'--when referring to people.

However, 'who' can also be used to refer to nouns such as countries, like this:

The nation whose people respect laws more than ethnicity can be a republic.

And the answer to the question 'who said "A democracy if you can keep it?"' is Benjamin Franklin. The question he was asked, by a crowd which saw him departing from the Constitutional Convention, was 'what kind of government have you given us?'