Democracy

[CalvinOwen]

"Democracy is the meanest and worst of all forms of government."
John Winthrop (1588–1649), first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

“Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
John Cotton (1584–1652), seventeenth-century Puritan minister in Massachusetts.

"Democracies are spectacles of turbulence and contention.” Democracies are “incompatible with personal security or the rights of property. . . . In general [they] have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
James Madison (1751-1836), fourth president of the United States and recognized as the “father of the Constitution,” the Federalist Papers (No. 10).

"He {Supreme Court Justice Scalia} quotes St. Paul, 'For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.'

'The Lord,' Mr. Scalia explained in Chicago, 'repaid — did justice — through His minister, the state.'

This view, according to Mr. Scalia, once represented the consensus 'not just of Christian or religious thought, but of secular thought regarding the powers of the state.' He said, 'That consensus has been upset, I think, by the emergence of democracy.' And now, alarmingly, Mr. Scalia wishes to rally the devout against democracy's errors. 'The reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should not be resignation to it, but the resolution to combat it as effectively as possible,' he said in Chicago.

Mr. Scalia is right about one thing. Modern democracy did upset the divine authority..." -- NY Times Article

 

[reformedfan]

Founding fathers didn't have in mind true democracy, but something else. (Wish I could remember what) oh yeah! The more Biblical system of checks & balances- no problem with legislating from the bench if the judges would stop treating the constitution like a 'living document', the electoral college, etc. What America has become shows what happens when then church moves away from Calvinism.
You end up secular.