No they haven't, millions of people aren't responsible for the acts of a few, regardles of what they have vested, those that act outside their vested authority are guilty, not the people that vested that power in those people, once you don't act in your seat, you're not acting in the name of the people.
Cool story though, generation after generation, I don't know what that has to do with the fact that it wasn't any democratic will that vested the people as collateral, unless you want to argue that it was democratic among the "even if 0.000000001% vote, is still enough".