A constitutional republic is not what is governing us today.
If it was, FIJA would be encouraged to pass out pamphlets at trials, everybody would want to vote because they would know that their vote counts, people on welfare wouldn't be living better than those with jobs, and corporations wouldn't be able to lock people in contracts and then diminish the quality of their services. Planned obsolescence would be illegal, pharmaceutical drugs would be the last thing doctors are allowed to prescribe after all else fails.