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Contrary to what you may hear today, our [[Founding Fathers|Founders]] did not like pure [[democracy|democracies]]. They worried about tyranny by the uninformed masses. They wanted a select group of [[Homo Sapiens|people]] making our [[law]]s.

Contrary to what you may hear today, our [[Founding Fathers|Founders]] did not like pure [[democracy|democracies]]. They worried about tyranny by the uninformed masses. They wanted a select group of [[Homo Sapiens|people]] making our [[law]]s.

An example is our [[electoral college]]. [[Al Gore]] won more [[vote]]s than [[George W. Bush]], but [[George W. Bush|Bush]] won more [[vote]s in the [[electoral college]]. Our [[President of the United States of America|president]] is not chosen directly by the [[Homo Sapiens|people]]. He is chosen by the [[Electoral College]]. Another example is the original procedure for choosing [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Senator]]s. [[state]] legislators selected them, not the general public. (This was changed by the [[Seventeenth Amendment|17th Amendment]] in 1913 - see text[[book]] p. 334)

An example is our [[electoral college]]. [[Al Gore]] won more [[vote]]s than [[George W. Bush]], but [[George W. Bush|Bush]] won more [[vote]]s in the [[electoral college]]. Our [[President of the United States of America|president]] is not chosen directly by the [[Homo Sapiens|people]]. He is chosen by the [[Electoral College]]. Another example is the original procedure for choosing [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[Senator]]s. [[state]] legislators selected them, not the general public. (This was changed by the [[Seventeenth Amendment|17th Amendment]] in 1913 - see text[[book]] p. 334)

The [[Constitution]] limits the [[power]] of the national [[government]] in several ways:

The [[Constitution]] limits the [[power]] of the national [[government]] in several ways: