Well, they didn't do so - because Senators weren't directly elected, and they instituted the electoral college (which didn't have to vote according to the electorate) and because blacks and women couldn't vote. Today, we elect senators directly, blacks and women can vote - we still have an electoral college, and in that sense we do not have a perfect democracy. But the fact is, philman_36, however much you want to scream on these posts, we vote, directly or indirectly, for all political offices in this country, and our leadership clearly reflects the will of the people. Normal people anywhere in the world would call (and they certainly do call) this a democracy. (Yes, it's also a republic.) We are one of the most democratic nations in the world - and most people know that.