The very Founding Fathers of the United States, nowhere in the Constitution they drafted did they name "democracy". In fact, many of them were strong opponents of that political system. To create and sustain a Republic, which was their original idea, is one thing, and to associate it with democracy, which is our own conception and idea, is another... Good post, my friend.
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Actually they edited it out. Look at the writing it is just a translation and multiple drafts were written edited written edited written and edited...
A lot of these individuals were actually kids. It wasn't a bunch of old men and in fact life expectancy back then was only around 30s.
Luckily they did have an education to see what pure democracy as well as other forms of failed governments they could learn from.
However I'd really like to be a fly on the wall when the conversation about writing these documents with the Iroquois Confederacy was going on...