What is Democracy?

The American framers were not fans of pure democratic government, and so they created a federal-democratic-republic. 

But they believed in democratic society -- not a society dominated by royalty, aristocracy or any upper-class elite.

G.K. Chesterton wrote:

 "In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves--the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state. This is democracy; and in this I have always believed."

Many in history have disagreed with these points. 

Plato's Republic presents a case (whether he was in earnest or wrote it ironically), for the politicians deciding who would marry and who would have--and raise--children. 

Numerous experts have argued that the state should oversee and even control the way parents rear their children, and few people today fully embrace the idea that the regular people should be in charge of establishing the nation's laws.

But in disagreeing with these ideas, they are disagreeing with democratic society, believing that the elites know better than the many and that a few elites should run the world and control how the rest of us live.