Bollocks again. You need a dictionary!
Look up the difference between democracy and republic. In concept there is none! They are are just flavors of the same political ice-cream!
To wit (from the online dictionary
here):
Pray tell us the difference, because none are apparent. It's all in your tiny, tiny mind ...
Thank you for taking the time from protesting over-regulation, heavy taxation, and Big Government corruption in your own country to come advise us.
One can certainly appreciate the theory and if one is curious enough, can find the parallel failures of history that have bearing on reality.
"The constitution of the Roman Republic was designed as a corrective to democracy. Specifically, it was hoping to protect against the excesses of Athenian-style direct democracy. About twice a month in Athens, citizens voted into law almost anything they wished. About six to seven thousand citizens would squeeze into a hillside amphitheater known as the Pnyx and were swayed by demagogues (“people leaders”) into voting for or against whatever the cause de jour was. Our term “democracy” comes from the Greek dêmos-kratos, which means “people-power.”
In furor at a rebellion, for example, Athenians once voted to kill all of the adult male subjects of the island of Lesbos—only to repent the next day and vote again to execute just some, hoping that their second messenger ship rowed fast enough across the Aegean to catch the first bearing the original death sentence. In a fit of pique, the popular court voted to execute the philosopher Socrates, fine the statesman Pericles, and ostracize the general Aristides. Being successful, popular, rich, or controversial always proved to be a career liability in a democracy like the one that ruled Athens.
The Romans knew enough about mercurial ancient Athens to appreciate that they did not want a radical democracy. Instead, they sought to take away absolute power from the people and redistribute it within a “mixed” government. In Rome, power was divided constitutionally between executives (two consuls), legislators (the Senate and assemblies), and judges (Roman magistrates).
The half-millennia success of the stable Roman republican system inspired later French and British Enlightenment thinkers. Their abstract tripartite system of constitutional government stirred the Founding Fathers to concrete action. Americans originally were terrified of what 51 percent of the people in an unchecked democracy might do on any given day—and knew that ancient democracies had always become more not less radical and thus more unstable. For all the squabbles between Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison, they agreed that a republic, not a direct democracy, was a far safer and stable choice of governance.
The result was a potpourri of ways to curb the predictable excesses and fits of the people. An Electoral College reserved commensurate power to rural states rather than passing off the presidential vote into the hands of the huge urban majorities. States could decide their own rules of voter participation—with the original understanding that owning a modicum of property might make a citizen more rooted and engaged. Senators were appointed by state legislatures to balance the popular election of House members.
Many of these checks on popular expression were later overturned by plebiscites or the courts, but they reflected the original eighteenth-century worries over a supposedly unchecked mob. We often think that a Bill of Rights was designed to protect Americans from monarchs and dictators. It certainly was. But the Founders were just as terrified of what that the majority of elected representatives without restraint might legally do on any given day to an individual citizen."
The Mob Is Coming For You-Hoover Institute-VDH
Reality is quite different from theory and we can follow the failures directly from proof of concept throughout history until
modern times.
A small cluster of population centers (Wile E.) does not get to eat the roadrunner (The rest of the USA and everyone in it.) despite whatever acme scheme they come up with no matter how advantageous the newest fad may be.
The long standing institution survives to the betterment of all whether or not they appreciate or even realize the fact.
