Democracy Versus Republic
The United states was never meant to be a democracy. It’s a simple fact. Yet many Americans believe that democracy is somehow the core value, a precious legacy left to them by their founding fathers. Nothing could be further from the truth. James Madison, the father of the U.S constitution once said:
… 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.
John Stuart Mill remarked that democracy is simply the:
tyranny of the majority
The official Training manual of the U.S War department had less than flattering things to say about democracy. source.
A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of ‘direct’ expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation
or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.”
In fact, there is very little evidence that the U.S’s fathers and pioneers ever found the notion even remotely fashionable.
Just a thought.
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