Our Constitution established a representative republic. The checks & balances, plus the assumption that a wise & landed electorate would elect responsible leaders was the way our land was to be governed. The founders knew the unwashed masses were prey to demagogues, were subject to greed over what others had and left unchecked, would push government to confiscation & terror as was happening in revolutionary France at that time.
Well, we are now ruled by venal leaders and may yet see the guillotine in out town squares as democracy and corruption of what the Constitution wrote is at hand.
You can see Generation Feral practicing democracy all the time with the crimes they commit against others.