Question: what does it mean to be anti democratic

title: Criticism of democracy
text: The constitutions of many countries have parts of them that restrict the nature of the types of laws that legislatures can pass . A fundamental idea behind some of these restrictions , is that the majority of a population and its elected legislature can often be the source of minority persecutions , such as with racial discrimination . For example , during the mid-1930s and mid-1970s in the democratic country of Sweden , the government forcibly sterilized thousands of innocent women . They were sterilized due to `` ' mental defects ' , or simply because they were of mixed race . '' A second example is when , in 2014 in Pakistan , `` a Christian couple were burnt alive in a brick kiln by a mob for their alleged burning of the pages of Quran . '' This was followed by little police retaliation and a statement from the President of Pakistan stating that his government would protect the rights and interests of the Christian community . Some countries throughout the world have judiciaries where judges can serve for long periods of time , and often serve under appointed posts . This is often balanced , however , by the fact that some trials are decided by juries . While many , like Wittman , have argued that democracies work much the same way as the free market and that there is competition among parties to prevent oppression by the majority , others have argued that there is actually very little competition among political parties in democracies due to the high cost associated with campaigning .