At the time of the founding of the United States almost all other political systems in the world were authoritarian governments in which rulers fully controlled the government. It was because of oppression by England’s monarchy that the Americans protested for a government that gave the power back to the people. It was then that the Framers of the constitution established a republic.
When writing the constitution the framers established a republic not a democracy, however today many people say we have a representative democracy. The main difference between a republic and a democracy lies in the limitations placed on government. In a republic the power is given to the people, who in turn use their power through elected representatives. A democracy is a government in which all eligible citizens have the rights to equal participation, either directly or through elected representatives.
Political scientists have developed three theories of American
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Pluralism would have one theory that the framers might have preferred because as previously stated it consist on multiple interest groups. I can be argued that the framers also represented different interest groups such as, north v. south, and rural v. urban and many different other viewpoints were also represented. The framers would not have agreed with the hyperpluralism theory because although they did not want an all-powerful government, they also did not want a weak one. James Madison stated in Federal 10 that fractions also know as interest groups, could be a problem and that all factions create gridlock. The elite theory would also be a theory that the framers might have established. It can be argued that the framers believed that a privilege majority should rule in the name of all the other people, with just a small amount of participation from the