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Yeah - I guess. Ancient Greece tried pure democracy, everyone voted individually on everything. Then they got beat and enslaved by stupider people with a republic.
What happens in chaos is that eventually a very ruthless strongman takes over. So the constitution has value because it has a tradition that keeps that at bay.
There are 190+ countries, 200+ if you count territories, and to point endlessly to Switzerland, which is a small country of 8.5 million, and is not even as large as American cities, is ridiculous. Same Denmark, 5.2 million.
Those tiny countries are the exception, not the rule.
Rule of the demos, the people, is only possible practically in very small places, not in large populous countries.
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