Jefferson's View On Democracy

Plato’s initial criticism was shared by many in modern times. Churchill is reported to have said that democracy is the least bad system of all the other bad systems of government. He also joked about the voter’s ability to make a correct judgment when he said that a two minute conversation with a voter is the best argument against democracy. The famous satirist H.L Mancken quipped that it is hard to assume that collective wisdom will flow from individual ignorance. Adlia Stevenson who ran against Dwight Eisenhower when told that all thinking men would vote for him replied that he is pleased to hear it but he needs a majority.
However the rebirth of idea of democracy in 1674 was followed by baby steps and philosophers like Locke, Montesquieu and the founder of American constitution James Madison took it by its figure and walked into the realm of checks and balances i.e. constitutionalism. So they at once recognized the citizen should have voice but that voice should be filtered through a various devices to prevent it from the monster of ochlocracy and its town description.
Nothing, however, was said about good or responsive government. First ever written constitution was drafted along the same lines by painstaking work of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. The Federalist papers are a testament to this day of the amount of thought put into the document to make it a constitutional republic as opposed to a democracy. This document over a period of next 100 years was copy pasted, adopted and adapted by many countries without much thought. An example of the same frivolous practice can be seen from the constitutions of India and Pakistan which if you critically examine, appear to be drafted along the same