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" Ultimately, serious issues that are politically-sensitive should be decided by referendum (i.e. voters)."

A poor idea that has never succeeded in a free political society... The Founders established a Republic instead of a democracy to prevent such mob-driven totalitarian nonsense that, eventually, accompanies those ideas...

[A poor idea that has never succeeded in a free political society... The Founders established a Republic instead of a democracy to prevent such mob-driven totalitarian nonsense that, eventually, accompanies those ideas...]

We are now ruled by an assemblage of far left royals and aristocrats known as the Federal judiciary. Democracy would be an upgrade.

[A poor idea that has never succeeded in a free political society... The Founders established a Republic instead of a democracy to prevent such mob-driven totalitarian nonsense that, eventually, accompanies those ideas...]

I’m not sure how totalitarian got thrown in there. Totalitarianism is a system where a dictator or oligarchy imposes certain views on the populace by employing an army of secret police and punishing those who dissent from those views with sentence ranging from public humiliation all the way up to execution via torture. Referendums are merely elections where laws rather than politicians go up for a vote. An example of a referendum in Switzerland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Swiss_minaret_referendum
[The federal popular initiative “against the construction of minarets” was a successful popular initiative in Switzerland to prevent the construction of minarets on mosques. In a November 2009 referendum, a constitutional amendment banning the construction of new minarets was approved by 57.5% of the participating voters.[1] Only three of the twenty Swiss cantons and one half canton,[2] mostly in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, opposed the initiative.

This referendum originates from action on 1 May 2007, when a group of right of centre politicians mainly from the Swiss People’s Party and the Federal Democratic Union, the Egerkinger Komittee (”Egerkingen Committee”) launched a federal popular initiative that sought a constitutional ban on minarets. The minaret at the mosque of the local Turkish cultural association in Wangen bei Olten is the initial motivation for the initiative.

The Swiss government recommended that the proposed amendment be rejected as inconsistent with basic principles of the constitution.[3] But after the results were tabulated, the government immediately announced that the ban was in effect.[4] ]