Not to quibble, I know it has entered the lexicon as practically indistinguishable from a Republic. But the anachronism of seeing “Democratic ideals” next to those men's names made me wince. Democracy was a dirty word to our founders, because at its heart Democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” Ben Franklin
I agree and apologize for perpetuating the error.