A
versus a democratic, uh, government and, arguing successfully, why, the United States should be a republic, not a democracy. Which indeed it really is, a republic, not a democracy. Where he defines dep-, democracy as everyone votes for the issues and republic is people who vote for someone who then in turn votes for the issues. In other words, you vote for representatives.
B
Uh-huh.
A
And the whole idea was, um, presumably those who get voted in would be wiser than the average person, and, and, a specialist and able to make more informed decisions and can protect against the tyranny of democracy, Because just as you can have a tyranny of a single, um, you know, bad ruler or something, you can have a tyranny of the majority. And, uh, he makes a very, uh, passionate, good argument for why you don't want some things decided by democratic process, because anytime you have a majority, um, they can change the law in a democ-, a fully democratic process and there are cases when you don't want that to be the case. Um, oh, you know, a candi-, if there's some minority that people don't like because of, you know, racial hatred or something like that, the majority can just simply vote again-, vote against them.
B
Right.
A
And cases like that, he argues, need to be constrained, and, and actually I agree, except that I don't trust the people who are appointed to vote.
B
Sometimes I think we have that right now, with Congress.