People need to research the meaning of the word democracy.
I know the founding fathers referred to our system of government as a democracy but it never was a democracy and they knew it. It just a popular word at the time.
Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" was, "A republic, if you can keep it".
It is a representative democracy or in other words a republic. And because we are a republic with a constitution written from the perspective of We The People and not we the government.
If we were a democracy then we would be having elections every week. Democracies do not work. It is two wolves and a sheep discussing what to have for dinner.