“It was a very good set up and ensured that the Federal Government would not become a ‘democracy’ where the people of the United States could directly elect not only congressmen, but Senators and a President who would endure themselves to the masses by giving them money from the public largess.”
I undserstand all that, and it probably was a better system back when. But they are both small mechanisms as they relate to the whole of our system of government. We don’t stop being a Republic and become a “democracy” just because Senators are directly elected. We still have our Constitution, our checks and balances, and our federalism, all three of which are vastly more important in my eyes than how we elect Senators.
We disagree. What is the check and balance against the masses voting in people who will cut them checks from those who still have money? The Supreme Court?
Our current government is a mix between a democracy wherein all the representatives and the president are voted into power by the masses and a Supreme Court aristocracy.
My FRiend we are in the last days of this Republic. The people have discovered that through the power of the voting booth they can elect people who will vote them money from the treasury even if that money does not exist. The masses have spoken and they have elected Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barak Obama in the hopes that they will vote them all goodies from the treasury.
Welcome to democracy.