What do you believe the original juxtaposition of democracy was?

[originalpckelly]

Poll question: What do you believe the original juxtaposition of democracy was?

What do you believe, our founding fathers thought democracy was juxtaposed with? (Or at least the one who originally helped the name Democrat be used for a political parties name.)

[Selatius]

1. On edit: Neither, it was Aristocracy vs. Republicanism

There were those who felt those who owned the most should have the biggest say in the affairs of this country. Everybody else was shades of that original statement. The idea of letting poor people, Blacks, and women vote was simply too radical.

In later centuries and in other countries, it became a contest of republican forms of government vs. democratic forms of government. To be specific, all governments today are republics. The closest a country has come towards achieving the true definition of democracy today is probably Switzerland.

Their constitution empowers citizens to directly challenge the legislative actions of their legislators and recall legislators through referenda petitions, and it allows them to pass laws directly bypassing the legislature through initiative petitions. The Swiss constitution, in several ways, is a pioneer as far as advancing democracy is concerned, in my opinion.

[sweetheart]

2. Monarchy vs. white feudalism

They agreed that black people were inferior.
They believed non-landed citizens had lesser rights.

The system was created to ditch the king, yet maintain the
system of landed parentage that would preserve white rule in
the americas against all demographic change.

[H2O Man]

3. They were exposed

to the Haudenosaunee.

[YOY]

4. Since it was all pre-industrial age

I'm going to have to say the former and not the latter. Yeah, I know Rome and all that...with the republic, but at that point it really didn't matter.

Now which ones were federalists and antifederalists?: we can answer that one.