That's a little contrived. :shock:
Want to explain further?
i am very glad you asked me this question, and i am going to answer you with Madison , father of the u.s. Constitution his ideas, and words from myself.
when Madison was asked to write the constitution, he wanted to create a constitution which would last , and not fail. Madison looked at the other governments of history and why they failed. so when he came too the constitutional convention with his constitution, he was well armed with his ideas, and how too answer questions he would be asked by the other founders. Madison knew from history that democracies fail because of there (excesses).
democracy is rule of the people ( majority rule/mob rule ), those who have the majority make the rules for everyone it is a collective society, in democracies the people ----->endowed themselves with rights<------, this gives the majority the power to create any right, any law they chose, now this sounds good, but its is not because people are self-serving creatures, who seek what is good for their own wants and desires and it also gives government power to act for the majority, ...so government grows and consumes more power.
what are wants and desires?....they are excesses.
when people endow themselves with rights, and can make any law they choose because they have the majority, they create laws to suit themselves the majority, they give themselves rights to things.. healthcare!, in the south African constitution which was written not that long ago, and is a democracy, they have in their constitution, rights to food, water, a house, healthcare, yet they say they have free speech, but if you look at the constitution closely, you will read, your speech only goes so far, too the point if you insult someone, them your speech is no longer free........nice democracy.....not!
what does this lead too, it leads to socialism, ..why? because the people who produce have to pay the cost for these rights to these material goods that now have been declared a right, because governments don't have money or create wealth, they must take money through taxation of the people who do that producing of wealth.
because in democracies the people and government are not restrained by law ( a constitution), and too put it another way, people run-a muck, and create an entitlement nation.
so Madison created for the u.s. a republic with a republican form of government...article 4 section 4 of the constitution.
democracy is a democratic form of government, an illegal in the u.s., because the constitution guarantees a republican form government with republican principles too every state in the union, federalist paper #39 titled "conformity to the plan of republican principles"
Madison states that every state government in the union has to be republican form of government , and it is NOT, because the people of the state change it too anything other an republican by peaceful means, then that state can on longer be part of the union, or if a state is changed from a republican form by force, say by a small group of people, the the union will force its return to republican government by means of force....THIS FROM THE FEDERALIST PAPERS.
in a republican form of government, power of the people is spread out by direct and indirect power, THE LAW RULES, NOT THE MAJORITY, the people cannot change the constitution to give themselves rights, of create laws too benefit a few, because in our republic, rights are endowed by god, not the people, people cannot create their own rights.
Madison says, man must be constrained by law, or he will run-a muck, with excesses, and create his own downfall.
what are the difference between a democratic republic, and a republic of republics like the founders created for us Americans.
a democratic republic, majority rule.... rights can be created, laws can be change to serve those in power, those in the majority, and elite really run the government.....with excesses there is no end, rights of individual citizens are violated by the majority.
what does a republic of the founders do, BUT has been lost ,because government has violated the constitution and moved us towards democracy in the last 120 years.
in republican form of government it is limited by a constitution, it cannot created things which it has not been given authority by that constitution, it serves the people in securing their rights, and that is ALL RIGHTS. as Madison says, your property rights are just as strong as your right to free speech.
Americans are free because the federal government has NO! jurisdiction over them, unless they are pirates, counter-fitters, or traitors.
property rights are secure, because government cannot tell you what too do with your property or business, unless you violate the rights of other citizens. this means discrimination laws on citizens , affirmative action, minimum wage laws are unconstitutional because government is suppose to secure your rights, not violate them, by dictating too your your property. rights.
since federal government power is limited, lobbyist, the rich and powerful have no power, because government cannot help them, because the constitution prevents them from doing things outside its 18 duties of said constitution too help those elite.
many people will read what i have put down and say" BS".....but the only way too find the truth, is too read the constitution, and the federalist papers, and letters of the founders.
to give an example...many people say Jefferson was not a Christan.........nothing can be further from truth!.......Jefferson says in a letter......i am para -phrasing..." our rights are not endowed to us by worldly kings, or legislators, but by the KING OF KINGS.....who is Jesus Christ.. this from the 1904 printing of Jefferson's personal writings.
i ask everyone too seek truth, and read what the founders created, so many people have been fooled by government and what other people have told them, i ask you search for yourself.