The terms “democracy” and “republic” are sometimes interchangeably used, but the Founders were clear about what they wanted the newly formed nation of America to be. They created a constitutional republic. As the Pledge of Allegiance states, written more than 100 years after the Constitutional Convention: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands …” But many Democrats don’t like the word “republic” because it reminds Americans that it is the Constitution, not majority rule on any given day, that governs us. It is the Constitutio…