posted July 16, 2023 05:45 PM
Bullshiite!The framers of the US Constitution despised democracies and said so many times.
James Madison on Democracies:
"there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
― James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51
—John Adams, 1765
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams
Benjamin Franklin 1787
on exiting the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Article IV Relationships Between the States
US Constitution: Section 4 Republican Form of Government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.