You people are CONFUSING democracy and republicanism.

AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC
AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC
AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC
AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC
AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC
AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A REPUBLIC

Please drill this in your head. America does not practice mob rule, America practices rule of law above majority rule.

Rule of law > majority rule. In America the majority cannot oppress the minority. Our founding fathers thought and said that democracy was BAD. They detested democracy because it always led mob rule chaos.

America was founded as a republic. And still is. If a man kills his wife, the mob can't lynch him because that man has a constitutional right to a trial first to prove his guilt. In a democracy a mob would have been able to lynch him because they were the majority.

Basically republicanism protects the minority by giving every individual certain inalienable rights that protects you from the mob mentality.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, "What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?" He replied: "A republic, if you can keep it."