We have not been a Constitutional Republic in a long long time. It started with the changes to the voting laws and liberalization of the same.
One man one vote. Only people with skin in the game, landed people vote. All the others need to earn the right.
So it goes. So it ends.
AND END WOMEN’S SUFFERAGE! THEY HAVE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH
I learned today that Woodrow Wilson started this... figures.