If you want to know all the gory details from the early Greeks (Aristotle, Socrates and Plato) from almost 2,400 years ago read Plato’s’ The Republic. And its clear that they knew that a Democracy was the worst kind of government, and that’s why our founders set up a Republic. According to Alexis de Tocqueville in his book Democracy in America (a Must read to any serious study) the uneducated early American settlers know more about our form of government than college grads today do. In my opinion the change from a real republic to a semi-Democracy started with the 17th amendment ratified 4/8/1913 the same year the FED was created. From there it has been down hill all the way and UN agenda 21 was the final nail in the coffin of our freedom. What will arise from the ashes of the American republic is unknown, but its unlike to be good!