I really like your analysis and cites. America is not so much a representative republic, it is a hierarchical representative republic.
The original voting in most states was set up to make family households the smallest unit of representation, each family voting through the male head of household.
The States were represented, as States, in Congress by Senators, and in electing Presidents by the Federal Electors.
For many years Countries, as Counties, were represented in one house of the State Legislature.
The hierarchy is of utmost importance, for it keeps vital a respect for and compliance with the duties of being a representative of a body.
The direct election of Senators (17th Amendment, 1912) destroyed the representation of States as States in the Federal hierarchy. Allowing the voting franchise for women (19th Amendment, 1920) ended completely the representation of Family Households, as Family Households, throughout the nation. It should be noted that the example of the widow Lydia Taft of Uxbridge Massachusetts in 1756 being granted the household voting franchise because she was a widow should have served as the example to follow. Moses and G-d worked this whole thing out with the five daughters of Zelophehad some 30 centuries ago.
The One-Man-One-Vote rulings of the US Supreme Court in the progressive Warren Court of the 1960’s removed the representation of counties as counties in the State Houses, and to a lesser extent in the US House.
Today, with the hierarchies flattened and perverted, we have rule of the mob, and of those demagogues and propagandists who inflame and herd the mob as a mob.
The founders had become highly keen of the fact that God never gave one man all that power. It was inherent in every human being, a natural right to rule over ones self & his family. They were also very aware of English history when the king had no power except that of commander of the army. All other powers resided with the people & the heads of the households of the society. This is also why marrying someone of similar values & beliefs is so important. The breakdown in the family unit today can be directly attributed to the feminist movement and women thinking they can be equal to men in all aspects. The movement ushered in a new found selfishness that spread to the children.
I never want nor hope to be equal to my husband in every sense of the term. I respect & cherish his dominance on several levels. We instilled these values into our children and today they are/were better people for it. Our son is gone but he left a lasting impression on the lives he touched and our daughter who is in pre-med while working full-time enjoys a healthy level of respect from her peers as well as her boss & professors.