[Huck]

They did declare a Democratic Republic form of government.

As long as we're niggling, they didn't even do that. Here is what they did do:

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government

No mention of democracy at all. Legislatures chose Senators. Electors chose the President and Vice President. The Execituve chose the Judiciary, with advice and consent. Only the House was to be, strictly speaking, democratically elected.

[Joe Brower]

Correct. In fact, neither the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution contain within them the word "democracy" anywhere.

I hit people with this every time I hear these mewlings of "democracy". It variably puts them in a mental stall.