Whereas 2,000 years after the ancient Greeks laid the groundwork for democracy, the founders of the United States built an even greater democratic system of government, a democratic republic, propelling the United States to become the world’s most advanced Nation in human history; Whereas the model of government set forth in the United States Constitution has been reproduced around the world; Whereas the system of Government of the United States, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy, has made significant contributions to the a more free and stable world; Whereas the system of Government of the United States, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy, has made significant contributions to the a more free and stable world; Whereas according to Freedom House, despite the expansion of democracy worldwide, today more than one in three people in the world do not live in States considered free; Whereas the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, with the addition of the Reconstruction Era amendments, including the 14th, 15th, and the 19th Amendments, enshrine the rights and civil liberties of citizens of the United States, including the right to vote in free and fair elections and they have done so peacefully since the Nation’s founding; Whereas the perpetuation of democracy’s ideals does not happen on its own, and can be stalled or reversed; Whereas surveys show that citizens of the United States are losing faith in the democratic system; Whereas according to a study published in the Journal of Democracy— (1) 91 percent of young people in the United States, in the 1930s, thought it essential to live in a democracy; (2) only 30 percent of young people in the United States, in 2018, think that it is essential to live in a democracy; (3) 24 percent of young people in the United States, in 2018, think democracy is a bad or very bad way of running the country; (4) 35 percent think that army rule is a good way to run a government