Spencer's Super-Happy Fun-Time Right-Wing Word Pit

That now raises a question about our current government.  Our government here in the US is not a democracy.  Certain democratic elements are combined with the format of a republic.  We are left to choose those who will make our laws and we trust them to preserve our liberty.  John Adams once said "The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."  Even our founders recognized that a mob rule would ultimately fail.  Mr. Adams also said, "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.". This sentiment buy a founder who could not conceive to trust the people too much coupled with founders like Thomas Jefferson, who in his writings seemed to err strongly on the side of democracy created a great system of government.  A system of government that holds all branches beholden to each other and all to a single constitution which guards our liberties from the choices of a few.

The problem today is that interpretations of simple words meant to safeguard our liberty our too often debated to the point where context becomes blurry.  In this case, I fear that we are losing our liberties.