The founding fathers were not interested in democracy, in fact, in a country with 3 1/4 million people, which is about what we were at the time of the separation from England, only 700,000 people could vote—white males of property. So it's never been terribly democratic.... and they put together a constitution which would protect property for all time. No nonsense about democracy!

"Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)