Pure democracy was anathama to the founders for very good reasons...as Drjarhead has already stated.

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The idiot majority that now inhabits this nation would piss away all of our freedoms, now and in the future.
The amerikan people have been thoroughly deceived since birth. Very few ever shake off the deception and see thing for what they are.

A representative Republic is designed to protect individual rights and actually gives the people many more checks against tyranny and more opportunities to vote than any so called democracy.

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861