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The Constitution and Founding Fathers are pretty great compared to what we have now.

"At this point, Elbridge Gerry objected to Butler’s earlier-raised proposition that the clause be shifted to a presidential power. Gerry remarked that he never expected to hear in a republic a motion to empower the Executive alone to declare war."

"What is called a republic is not any particular form of government. It is wholly characteristical of the purport, matter or object for which government ought to be instituted, and on which it is to be employed … in this sense it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which … means arbitrary power in an individual person; in the exercise of which, himself, and not the res-publica, is the object."