As defined by multiple dictionaries, democracy means “majority rule” or “government by the people.” The records of the U.S. Constitutional Convention show that the founders of the U.S. rejected “a pure democracy” because it amounts to mob rule. James Madison, the father of the Constitution, emphasized that “such democracies” are “incompatible with personal security” and have “been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” Thus, the founders of the U.S. created a democratic constitutional republic with checks and balances to “guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.” In stark contrast, the Communist Manifesto calls for winning “the battle of democracy” so that a central government controls all “communication,” “property,” “transport,” “factories,” “credit,” and “agriculture.”