Government is Incomplete Conquest

... ) In fact, although the U.S. Constitution stipulates that the "United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government....," it says nothing about guaranteeing a democratic form of government. Over time, elites lost their fear of democracy and came to terms with it. Elites came to realize that enfranchized common peoples rarely threaten the status of elites. It also became clear that relatively few among the electorate are interested in taking part in the processes of government,...