In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.