Democracy is a very difficult form of government to sustain.
Our Constitution is a very eloquent and elegant set of rules by which we maintain a delicate balance between the Rights of the individual and the Rights of the State. Our forefathers deliberately and wisely leaned heavily toward the side of the individual. These were men to whom freedom was a new and heady dream just being realized. These men intended that no-one, ever, would place them or their descendants under any rule but the Rule of Law. The Rights they felt so strongly about were codified into the Constitution and Amendments.