See Post #28. American Constitutionalist is correct: We are a Constitutional Republic. Big difference between that and a “Democracy”.
Yes, I am always alarmed when someone, particularly someone who claims to be conservative, does not know what form of government our Constitution establishes, and does not understand the difference between a democracy and a republic.
Folks, this just came up in the Washington Post, and the author does, in fact, show that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, among others, said the United States had a “Representative Democracy” form of government:
Apparently, each of you like to set our Founding Fathers straight.