10 Things You Didn't Know About the U.S. Constitution

The Convention believed pure democracy was actually dangerous; you'll find no mention of it in the document.

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There is no mention of "democracy" in the Constitution. In fact, the United States of America isn't a true democracy; it's a republic, which is how the framers intended it.

In a pure democracy, the people make decisions directly. In a republic, the people make decisions indirectly, via representatives. The men at the Convention believed pure democracy to be a dangerous form of government [source: This Nation].

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