>>If the law is whatever the fifty percent plus one of the people or their reps determine,
I doesn’t take fifty percent plus one in our current two-party system.
First, because the two parties are similar, about 40% don’t bother to vote.
Second, suppose that the two parties split the rest with 35% for the dominant party in the jurisdiction and 25% for the subordinate party. Then in the primary, 20% of the voters can nominate the candidate who will win in the general if there are two running for nomination, and less than 20% can control the nomination if only a plurality is needed.
The two party system is designed to allow a small fraction of the population (originally the WASPs) to control the government.
Do you undertand what a republic is? The word repoubli9c doesn’t not stand for representation. A republic is a nation of laws where all are equal under it.
A democracy is majority controls and the majority changes it’s mind frequently. That is the problem, not the two party system.