Read the quote by Thomas Jefferson.
Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government . . . whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
–Thomas Jefferson,
1789
What did Jefferson believe would happen if the something went wrong in the government?
The people would ignore it.
The people would set it right.
The government would correct it.
The government would dissolve.