Democrats have never respected it. It’s by design.
The simple explanation of the two parties. A conservative is supposed to keep things the way they are. A progressive is supposed to pass new laws and bring about change.
If you like the way things are, you vote conservative. If you want things changed you vote progressive.
A conservatives job is to vote “no” to everything. The moment A “yes” vote is given to change, its no longer conservation.
Republicans wanted to support a republic. A Democrat wanted to change to a popular, democratic vote. Bringing about a democracy. The first of such votes that got the parties their name was to end the electoral college.
The electoral college is the only thing k keeping us A republic and not a democracy.
Simplest explanation.
We’ve now been called a republic but we operate like a democracy and as predicted People started to vote themselves perks.
At one time being a legislator was not something People wanted. It paid little and carried a big burden. Those legislators learned to find power and sold that power to anyone who wanted to buy it.
Things really went downhill.
Now we’re literally WROL. It’s a free for all based on an illusion that any portion of the constitution or our original laws are still in place.
1828, the founding of the Democratic Party
Patent hostility for Constitutional limitations on federal power began in the 20th Century with Wilson. They matured as a movement while “progressives” were enamored in the early 1930’s with the scientific achievements in managing national economies by the USSR and the German National Socialist Workers’ Party.