While the difference between a Republic and a Democracy is well known here on FR, it's not well known in the general public.
In fact, I'd bet that if you took a poll of the general population, better than 90% would say we are a democracy. I've even heard high ranking Republican politicians refer to the U.S.A. as a democracy.
I don't know how to go about it, but we need to do a better job of getting out the word that the U.S. is a Republic, what that means, and why it is preferable to a Democracy.
We used to have such a system in place
It was called : "Civics Class", and used to be offered in high School, but
That was before centralized FED Government control now called "Common Core"
In republics, laws are made either directly or indirectly by its component members. In the US, that means the people and the states.
Since the states foolishly booted themselves from the senate in 1913, it was only a matter of time before progressives neutralized the House of Reps as well.
Today, ninety-nine percent of US lawmaking is done by exec branch agencies.
The US is not a republic.