PRISM: Any medium that resolves a seemingly simple matter into its elements...

For instance, let's apply the prism to whether or not the founding fathers set-up a Republic or a Democracy for the country.

The elements of this discussion lie in what the founders wrote and what they didn’t write in the founding documents. For example, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence do not mention the word democracy even once. The same is true regarding the constitutions of every one of the 50 states.

The founders knew full well the differences between the two. During the Constitution Convention, Elbridge Gerry, said: “The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want (that is, do not lack) virtue; but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” And on June 21, 1788, Alexander Hamilton made a speech in which he stated:

“It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience had proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”

At another time Hamilton said: “We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” And Samuel Adams warned: “Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.”

James Madison, one of the members of the Convention who was charged with drawing up our Constitution, wrote as follows:

".... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

Look at all the elaborate system of checks and balances which the founders established; at the carefully worked-out protective clauses of the Constitution itself, and especially of the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights; at the effort, as Jefferson put it, to “bind men down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution,” and thus to solidify the rule not of men but of laws. All of these steps were taken, deliberately, to avoid and to prevent a Democracy, or any of the worst features of a Democracy, in the United States of America.

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