I rest my case, thank you.

Democracy (démocratie) is from 14th Century Middle French, which derived from the Middle Latin of the 13th Century (democratia). Your Greek word (demokratia) is more precisely understood as “popular government.” [demos: “common people” or “district” + kratos: “rule” and “strength”. Simplified, democracy can be described as “50% + 1″ or as “mob or majority rule”.

John Adams quipped that democracy was self-destructive. Karl Marx later said that democracy was the road to socialism.

Those who founded the United States rightly understood history and saw the folly in creating a system that was so fraught with dangers of devolving into the tyrannies from which so many fled and fought against. Kind Sir, please familiarize yourself with primary documents such as “The Federalist Papers”, where they discuss at great length the imperative of establishing a larger Republic to unite the many smaller republics. The modern educational system has done a masterfully terrible and successful watering down of proper historical contextualization.

Your first paragraph exquisitely demonstrates that point. Great Britain, though certainly possesses no single document, such as is found in the United States, it does have Parliamentary Sovereignty, and is considered to be a Constitutional Monarchy. It was in England that the Magna Carta, or the Great Charter, was birthed. Though not a constitution in its truest sense, it became the precursor to future, more refined efforts to limit authoritarianism and despotism, and to broaden the scope of what was later termed “Natural Law or Rights.”

The criticism leveled against Mr. Waddell assumed privileged knowledge by the author that readers would not have deduced for themselves, had they been left to come to their own conclusions. After correcting Mr. Waddell for his factual error, he was credited for being “technically correct”. Either he was correct or incorrect. He could not be both.

The Constitution of the United States is still the law of the land, regardless of how one may reinterpret its contents and modern application. Unless Mr. Jacobsen has the omnipotence to recreate the reality of the Constitution’s original intent as espoused by its craftsmen, it is highly suggested to refrain from embarking on crusades to enlighten minds of nobler quality.

George Washington warned in his Farewell Address not to become divided by sectarianism. Political parties do not rule the country simply by winning elections, no more than conferences rule leagues like the NFL, NBA, and MLB, by winning championships. The nature, character, and principles that supposedly govern parties shift like the changing of the four seasons. If the country is definitively a democracy, then parties ought to be non-factors. The results should be determined by the person who got the most votes, regardless of which party they belonged to and by what margin. Even if the victor were to only receive a single vote more, they should then be crowned the winner.