Good point el kabong, I was looking into the founding fathers debates on direct democracy. One of the reasons they were against it was to protect the minority from the majority or as Franklin said, the tyranny of the majority. Strange as we had slaves who weren't even regarded as humans at the time but that is how it was in the day. Apparently, Switzerland has a few aspects of direct democracy which at one tome prevented almost 90 percent of laws being passed. Switzerland borrowed many aspects of our constitution especially during the late 1800's