The framers gave us what they called a republic, but by a republic they meant a representative democracy, and by a representative democracy, they meant a government, as Madison put it in Federalist 52, that would have a branch that would be dependent upon the people alone.
Los constituyentes nos dieron lo que llamaron república, pero por república entendían una democracia representativa, por democracia representativa, entendían un gobierno como lo expresó Madison en El Federalista 52, que tiene una rama que dependiera solo de las personas.