Article IV, section 4: “a republican form of government”. Nope, not democracy.
This is why we write down orders, goals and objectives, mission statements and other things isn't it? So we don't get too awfully lost from our original thoughts or led astray by deceivers.
Confusion of the written word has been bad enough. Never mind the spoken. Now we add to it the confusion introduced by virtually everyone appearing to have some authority, real or just asserted, via the global speaker's platform of the galactic net. How can any reader of this mess of supposed facts have any discernment when he never knew the authoritative and trustworthy truth in the first place?