USA was not founded as a democracy. Where in the Constitution is the word “democracy”? Originally only landowners could vote. This requirement would solve a lot of problems associated with the excesses of democracy. No one envisioned 18 year old voting in 1787.

The Federalist Papers were written by Jay, Madison and Hamilton to persuade the voters of New York.

As far as constitutional propaganda, there are many misconceptions from elementary school or pop culture and media.

Let’s take one example, the death penalty. Opponents of the death penalty will say that amendment 8 forbids the death penalty because it is cruel and excessive. That interpretation is wrong because cruel and unusual have nothing to do with proportionality. The text says “cruel and unusual punishments”. The word is plural because it refers to a list of punishments in English common law that were deemed cruel and unusual.