America is a REPUBLIC (freedom by decentralized governance), NOT a “democracy” (slavery by tyranny of the majority).
The Founders exerted super-human efforts to make sure they did NOT bequeath us a “democracy.” They built all sorts of safeguard to make sure that would not happen.
What you said. The United States of America is a representative republic. A democracy is mob rule.
The 17th Amendment overnight rendered the Framers’ stable federal republic into an unstable democratic mess by making the Senate more congruent with the House.
Instead of standing athwart ill-considered and expected levelling bills from the people’s House, our post 17A Senate is as useful to the purposes of the Framers’ Constitution as an appendix is to the human body. It serves no positive function but can nonetheless kill.
Thank You!
I wish people would stop calling us a democracy. We weren’t designed to be one. It’s spelled out very clearly in the Constitution.
My take on this is always that a Republic is based on the "rule of law"; a democracy is 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.