Founding Fathers

        The founding fathers originally wanted to form a participatory government. They wanted this because it allows the people to directing vote on what they want.

        Having a participatory type of democracy, it is great for the civilians. The founding fathers thought that the people of the US should be able to vote on thing that will affect them directly. A great example of this in found in the Constitution in article 1, it states, "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the people of the Several States." This is explaining that the people get to directly vote for who they want to represent them. Another example of the founding fathers wanting a participatory democracy is from Brutus #1, "The confidence which the people have in their ruler, in a free republic, arise from their knowing them, from their being responsible to them for their conduct, and from the power they have of displacing them when they misbehave." This is saying that the people themselves are informed about who they get to vote for directly. 

      Based off of these documents it is clear to see that the founding fathers, while writing the Constitution and defending the ratification of it, had in the back of their minds that a participatory democracy is the best for the country.