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I seems to me that implicitly, here, the majority gives individual rights, and the majority can take them away. This can occur hegemonically or by sheer coercion.
If it turns out that the majority becomes a tyranny, maybe out of combined fear of an enemy defined in their minds as "terrorism," abrogating the individual rights of the minority (and their own as well), and you say they deserve what they get, how does that solve this problem of designing a democracy? Is there a "perfect" democracy in which the problem would be resolvable? If so, what would the structures be in resolving the problem?
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Your rights are not given, you own them, if they are violated, they are still rights.
If the people choose Tyrranny, they have spoken, and Why bother attempting to give them republic? You can only "design" a democracy among a populace with the will power to sustain it.
Government by necessity involves some tyrranny, otherwise it can't protect anyone. My perfect democracy just balances that to the point where you're safe, but the government deals with you at a bare minimum.