Agreed. The Founders’ goal was, above all, to limit the powers of government and guarantee the freedoms of the people, and a free civic society.
They knew democracy always eventually becomes mob rule.
Not sure who authored this but it has been around for a while. ***********************************************************
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."
"Why would I trade 1 tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants less than one mile away?"
Mel Gibson- The Patriot.