Democracy: No Friend Of Liberty, But An Ally of Tyranny

Published: May 29, 2024, 4:46 p.m.

\u201cOur Democracy\u201d has reached a point where both sides in the upcoming presidential election are claiming that freedom will end if the other side wins. If that were really true, it certainly makes clear that "our democracy" has some serious problems. But where did all this \u201cour democracy\u201d stuff come from anyway? The word \u201cdemocracy\u201d is nowhere to be found in the Declaration Of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, or U.S. Constitution. Democracy has existed for thousands of years. Why did America\u2019s Founders explicitly keep it out of our founding documents?