The question of democracy

[Dill]

(03-13-2018, 03:16 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I don't disagree that it still protects any minority, but the use of this to justify the Senate and making it the more powerful of the two chambers is troubling. The idea was not direct vote vs. representative. Instead, the debate was over the House or Senate having the larger role in government. The chamber of aristocracy was granted more power than the chamber intended to be more representative of the people.

This is where I get a little Burkean and advocate for state systems.

Many of the Framers appear to have leaned more toward's Aristotle's aristocracy than constitutional government. They did read Plato and Thucydides too, for whom there were not many good examples of democracy.

Though a leftist, I understood their worry in turning over the government to EVERYONE in a time before public education.

In our current world, that education is an even more critical requirement for a functioning democracy.