Mystifying how the far right on this forum have forgotten their social studies lessons and decided our Representative Democracy has to be called something else because we have a Constitution. As of they are mutually exclusive, instead of being mutually inclusive as designed by by the Framers. James Madison and the other social elites were terrified of the idea of the lower class gaining a majority, while at the same time recognized the inherit flaws of the monarchy and aristocracies where so many of our citizens migrated out from under. Hence came the Constitution, which is a statement of unalienable rights, while also being a living document guiding the framework of the United States.