text: define democracy in your own words? no dictionary definitions or links to dictionary sites, please.  i want honest answers in your own words. a myth.  a true democracy is where everyone votes on all issues all the time.  it is to easy for the majority to form a tyranny over the minority.  it has never existed and never will.  our founders were representativesocracy because that would give the populace the opportunity to vote money for themselves instead of the national good.  that is why we are a federal republic, where we choose representives with divided and diffused powers.  each branch has a clearly defined role and cannot violate that role.