In 4,543 words, the Constitution serves as the foundation and basis of the United States government. Within this document, one will not find the word “democracy.” Although the Founders may have intended a democratic form of government, the absence of the word democracy has caused great controversy over the United States official form of government. Dr. I.M. Skeptic claims that the Constitution does not create a real democracy, but a veneer of a democracy, and that the politics are run by various kinds of elites; furthermore, the current system of government and the current political campaigns add supplemental support to these claims.
The United States government has a representative democracy and therefore does not have a true
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When forming the constitution, they knew the history of empires of direct democracies falling. To insure and secure the survival of the fledging nation, they set up the government so that there were certain protections. Be that as it may, these protections are for the benefit of the elites. The Founders feared the uneducated would make the wrong decisions for the country. The uneducated may be easily swayed to fascist dictators. Although the Founders were not around to see it, this is what happened to Germany while they had a periodic direct democracy after World War I. The desperate citizens of Germany placed all of their trust and hope into the young and potential filled man, Hitler. This resulted in a way the Founders predicted when they carefully wrote the Constitution. They also feared a tyranny of the majority. This means that decisions are made in the mere interest of the majority and give no protection or say to minority groups. In this case, the political elites could be a minority group (Matzke, Edwards, Lineberry, Wattenberg, ). The distrust of the minority explains the statements that say the Constitution was “borne of distrust” and that the “fundamental characteristic of the Constitution is