“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)

Notice again, we are not a “democracy”. We are a republic. Those who discuss our nation as a democracy are advocating for mob rule. The founders believed this to be a suicidal tendency in forms of government.