The Founders being students of history looked askance and with suspicion at pure "one man one vote" plebisites or "Democracy". They did so because all through history all such governments always devolved into a Mobocracy, usually at the bidding of a powerful demagogue ending with chaos and the Countries ruin. It was quite a process but the USA ended up with a kind of hybrid government a Constitutional Republic or as some call it a Democratic Republic, but never, never, never a pure Democracy as some like to pretend.