The Founders rejected Democracy!? You are terribly mistaken about the difference between a Republic and a Democracy and what our Founders built. Our system of law and governing is Democratic. The relationship between our federal to states and states to states is a Republic. A Republic doesn't define how the states elect their governments and how their governments govern. The act of each states' citizens electing representatives in Congress who vote on federal law is Democratic. The act of each citizen casting a vote to elect one president is Democratic. The act of a city's elected officials arguing to that state's elected legislature that for public welfare the city needs to purchase via eminent domain 15 acres of land in another county, and that legislature agreeing in the interest of the greater good of the entire state is the very textbook example of Democracy at work. The Founders fortified and expanded Democracy, not rejected it.