You're thinking of the great compromise that created the bicameral legislature. The electoral college was a minor issue that was rubber stamped at the constitu

You're thinking of the great compromise that created the bicameral legislature. The electoral college was a minor issue that was rubber stamped at the constitutional convention. It was designed to prevent states from increasing their influence by expanding the franchise (remember when the constitution was written only white land owning men could vote). And it was designed for a time when traveling up and down the east coast took weeks instead of hours. The electoral college has also been distorted by the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 which fixed the size of the house of representatives. As the nation has grown since then, this is caused the inequity created by the electoral college to increase every decade. At this point the electoral college is outdated, it's served its purpose and it's time to move on. We have an extremely strong national identity, which didn't exist when the Constitution was written. We have lots of migration between the states, why should one persons vote count less simply because of where they live? America IS a democracy it was an extremely flawed one at its founding and there's been a stead march to improve it ever since. I believe what you're referring to in your "American is a Republic" statement is the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin. But that quote was an answer to a question and the question was "What kind of government do you give us, a monarch or a Republic?" And Franklin responded " A Republic, if you can keep it". This is a prodemocratic statement not an anti-democratic one. But at its core, your argument is that the states are the right unit to be protected and catered to rather than the individual/people, and I fundamentally disagree with that.