The people, the citizens elect the electors, who then elect a president from among the candidates. This aristocratic idea and fear of the people is also reflected in the specifics of the election of the President of the United States, who is not directly elected. The Founding fathers tried to prevent and limit as much as possible the influence of the people, the masses, in order to protect private property. Citizens, at the time exclusively white men, were understood rather as a source of legitimacy of political power and not as people who could also occupy important political positions. The richest are also supposed to be the most intellectually called to rule. Second, the Founding fathers proceeded from the aristocratic assumption that through the system of political representation the most virtuous would come to positions of political power, with intellectual aristocracy also being associated with wealth status. The idea was that the United States should therefore not become a democracy but an enlarged republic, which will be governed primarily by the example of Rome, which is evident from the names of key political institutions in the United States. According to Madison, the goal is to create a political system that will calm these contradictions and which will prevent the redistribution of property. The basic problem and origin of the factions is the unequal distribution of property. Here, Madison is explicit – the basic problem of democracy is that the poor can gain political power and encroach on property relations, leading to conflict over different interests. Democracy, which was associated with ancient Athenian democracy, was not desirable, because such democracy leads to a great division between people, to a great degree of conflict between different factions, and also to violence. In doing so, James Madison is the most explicit. is a democracy is controversial, as the Founding fathers did not establish a democracy.
But the key question that arises is: did this democratic system really degenerate under Trump, or are certain elements in the very design of the American political system that are problematic?įirst, the idea that the U.S. Biden has become a symbol of democracy, which is supposed to be inscribed in the foundations of the United States. Trump is said to have embodied vulgarity, was supported, as Hillary Clinton put it, by “basket of deplorables,” and Biden is arguable going to revive the tolerance and democratic culture of the United States. The liberal political option and the media welcomed the election of Joseph Biden as President of the United States with the hope of restoring “normalcy”, reviving moderation and political decency.
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