All you say is good and right. But it is not Democracy.
Democracy can work with a small country if there is referendum for the people, and if the people are interested enough that they all take part in the process.
What Democracy is in a large country is group Dictatorship. What I mean is this:
- 51% of the people vote their people into office.
- 49% of the people lose.
- Then the people who are voted into office do whatever they can get away with.
Look at Trump. A good Constitutional foundation seems to be able to curb him. But he finds ways around it to get away with all kinds of stuff the people do not want. And this can be good, if you have a good guy in office. So, Trump is way better than Biden in many ways. But he still isn't doing what the people want in many ways.
Is it a flaw in the Constitution? Possibly. The Contract Clause in the Constitution allows people to contract with Government. The people don't realize it, but when they sign up for Social Security and a bunch of other Government programs, they are bypassing their rights in the Amendments unless they take their particular problem to court and get an adjudication that really only works for them... except that Congress likes their adjudication enough to make it into a law for everybody.
In other words, people contract themselves out of some of their Constitutional general strength. This is why Trump can act like a Dictator at times.
There is a lot to write about this. And there might be ways around the problems that are easier than court actions. When the Founding Fathers set the Government up, they didn't know what would really happen. They were trying to keep the people free... free without forcing the people to be free.
It's working quite well. Just ask the poor families living on the streets of all the major cities throughout America.
