The Importance Of Democracy In America

The United States is one of the very first countries to claim itself to be a democracy. The nation as a whole has gotten caught up in this idea that we obtain a democratic government that we have tried to spread our ways to others so that they may learn from us. But what most American citizens don’t realize is that the democracy doesn’t exist, only very few of its values. If we could take off our blindfolds and see what is really before us we would know that we have and continue to have is a republic, where we are governed by leaders whom vote into office. Not only is this true, but primary intentions of what the Founding Fathers wanted for this country, racial discrimination, gerrymandering, and the Electoral College are a few examples of

The intentions of the Fathers was never to create a democracy, what they wanted to do was to allow people to vote for their representatives, so that those chosen would be able to make new additions to law as well as govern the rest and choose what would be for greater good, for everyone else, with good intentions and greater knowledge and wisdom. The Founding Fathers weren’t the first to come up with this idea, the Roman Republic fascinated them in every way, from their architecture, all the way down to their art, but what captured the attention of the Fathers was the form of government the Romans had. Although many Americans want to believe that we are a democracy because of “We the people”, to call it so would make them incorrect, because there is no such thing as being governed by the people, we fall through with being governed by others who we choose to

Ever since the beginning we have always elected people to make our decisions for us. We are also constituted by the almighty groundwork that our forefathers left for us to follow. They decided that the United States should be governed by the law (the U.S. Constitution) not the people, to prevent something they used to call “mob rule”. “The democratic ideal of rule by the people was joined with the lesser democratic practice of representation to give the democracy the form it took in the new American republic". The republic helps the United States stay stable, and controlled. We don’t allow for people to govern each other, because if we did so we would only end up terrorizing each other if we don’t like what we see of choose for ourselves, and that is when a republic comes to play. We have well-able, intelligent people to assist in finding the right choices that would be beneficial for us as a whole in the future, instead of finding wants, we are given laws that are suffice for our needs. The government is also here to protect us, because if we didn 't have it, we wouldn’t be able to defend ourselves as a democracy. This whole time, no other country has attempted to be a true democracy, not even the Athens which was where the concept of a democracy originated. This is possibly because a democracy is dangerous all on its