Democracy: But which one?

        The Founding Fathers, they created a government that involved the people. But to what extent. There are 3 different forms of democracy, Participatory, Pularlist, and Elite. The Founding Fathers wanted one of these democracies. Based off of evidence, the Founding Fathers wanted a pluralist democracy.

         The Founding Fathers knew that every citizen was important and needed to keep them in mind throughout the process. First, in a pluralist democracy, there are no dominating groups. In the constitution, the power is evenly spread out in the three groups and they have limits to their power. So no group can get too powerful and dominate the country. As James Madison said in Federalist No. 10 "... you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens;" this is saying how if there are more groups with equal power, it will be harder for anybody to take over the government. The people won't want to risk taking away other citizens rights.

       This supports the thesis because a pluralist democracy needs an evenly balanced amount of power in each group. Also since power is spread out it takes longer to have people agree with things, causing slower decision making.