We Brits really do love our tea <| sep |> He ' s president of the United States , of a federation of 50 sovereign state polities . His legitimacy is mediated by the States as such . He ' s not President UnMediated of a Mob of 300 , 000 , 000 Individuals Directly . We , thank God , have no such direct unmediated Leader of the People as unstructured undifferentiated mass of bare individualsOne man one vote is a principal for the House of Representatives . That ' s the part of our constitutional edifice concerned with direct proportional representation of individuals . Much of the rest of the Constitution is about mediating the individual through other mediate structures , through the States especially whose corporate reality is considered at least as important as individuals . It ' s never been about a simple majoritarianism .