text: Again, we are NOT a 'democracy'. Which is one of the forms of government most despised by the founders. One of the main purposes of the Constitution was to CONTROL the effects of the tyranny of the majority.
  
     “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”– John Adams, April 15, 1814 letter to John Taylor.