by Stephen A. Wait ~ 5th of October, 2023
The word democracy is increasingly, conveniently, and surreptitiously employed in the context of pure democracy.
Of late and most often, it is found couched as threatened. This, an implication that any rejection of even a plurality must be in defiance of the people’s will. But ignored here are the guardrails our constitution provides as insulation against the purity of democracy, i.e., a shelter for the minority against a maelstrom of whims. Indeed, without this necessary frame of reference, unadulterated democracy offers only ruinous consequence; think only the atrocities suffered at the hands of a majority.
The founders were cognizant the greater societal consequence born from naked democracy. Having sought a contemplative and deliberative structure for governance, the framers then provided, through the Constitution, their counsel on the administration of democracy. It is here, wedded with the tenets of our constitutional republic, that democracy enjoys righteous stature and renders those purveyors of its vulnerability nonsensical.
Hence, hold fast the Constitution… it is only if abandoned that our democracy is imperiled.
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