[steve50]

That's why we were founded as a Constitutional Republic. The Constitution was designed to place limits on our "democracy"(mob rule). Sadly, our public servants will no longer accept limits on their powers.

[Just another Joe]

Bump for the comment... and

Over time the government claimed the sole authority to interpret the Constitution, then proceeded to broaden its own powers ad infinitum and to strip the states of their original powers - while claiming that its self-aggrandizement was the fulfillment of the "living" Constitution. So the Constitution has become an instrument of the very power it was intended to limit!

I can see where this will take the USA. You don't want to go there if at all possible.

IMO, it still started going downhill with "Career Politicians".
Get the normal everyday people back into politics, running for office, (I know, a remote possibility), and you take away much of the BS.

[He Rides A White Horse]

That's why we were founded as a Constitutional Republic.

I'm glad somebody made the distinction between "Democracy" and "Constitutional Republic", because the difference is considerable.

Constitutional Republic is what we used to be; a "Democracy" (read "mob rule") is where Hillary and her socialist pals want to lead us.

[BluesDuke]

The Constitution was designed to place limits on our "democracy"(mob rule).

It may be more to the point to say, as did Barry Goldwater, that the Constitution was designed not to establish "democracy" (it was not, clearly enough) but, rather, to prevent a tyranny of the majority.

Sadly, our public servants will no longer accept limits on their powers.

And, in one sense, why on earth should they, when there yet remain enough citizens in these United States who believe not only that the State owes them a living and various and sundry levels of privilege, but that voting for such masters as indeed accept no limits on anything except the sovereignty of the individual equals preserving freedom. Freedom has indeed become slavery, to a far too grand (and obscene) extent.