Power to the People. The trouble is, that ideal does not exist in our present world. Power to the people means power to all the people and implies that the people are of one mind - which of course they never are. So our democracy is, in practice, what should rightly be called majocracy or power to the majority. The principle of democracy is that the majority is right, simply by virtue of its being a majority.
Majorities can be oppressive of minorities.
Majorities can be irresponsible, as when everybody wants more government programs but nobody wants to pay for them. And majorities can be wrong, in the simple sense that we look at a law and see that it does not accord with some inner sense of natural justice which lurks deep in every one of us. This is a question which has occupied the minds of political idealists and theorists since early Greek times, as it does still today. It is the search for what has always been known as Natural Law, based on the concept that somewhere there is a true and right principle on which all laws should be based. The history of the search for this Right Principle is well documented and makes inspiring reading.