The framers gave us what they called a republic, but by a republic they meant a representative democracy, and by a representative democracy, they meant a government, as Madison put it in Federalist 52, that would have a branch that would be dependent upon the people alone.
制定者给我们他们所谓的共和国， 但共和国他们真正指的是一个代表性民主， 而他们指的代表性民主，是政府， 如同麦迪逊在联邦党人文集第52篇中提到，会有一派 只取决于人民。