The framers of the United States wrote the Constitution as an alternative government to the Articles of Confederation. The constitution itself has created a fallacy of a direct democracy. The creation of the electoral college, the implement of suffrage for women and african americans, the election of senators, and the power of the judicial branch are examples of how the framework of the new government did not promote a direct democracy. The constitution does, however, create a representative, or indirect, democracy with the articles that were implemented in the creation of the new government. The Constitution does not stem from a distrust of a democracy, rather a way to supervise a free and direct democracy.
The Electoral College is how the American people vote on the leader of their country. The College consists of 538 delegates from the fifty states, each with the power to choose who they want as president. It meets after the general elections and votes on the President and Vice President
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The bill of rights is a list of rights the framers thought should be written out to be protected. Although these didn’t protect minority groups such as African American slaves. The new democracy only allowed white, landowning males to have the right to vote. Minority groups could have a distrust in the democracy if the democracy does not grant them the same rights as white men. It wasn’t until the fifteenth amendment when it stated, "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (Amd. XV, sec. 1). This amendment came almost one hundred years after the constitution was ratified. Women finally got the right to vote with the nineteenth amendment. It is understandable for groups of people who were ignored by the constitution to be skeptical of democracy because they had a reason to