Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

Our Founders chose a republic form of government and set up election rules to support a representative form of government rather than a democracy, as rule of the majority alone can have adverse results that often lead to it's demise. (The Laconia Daily Sun)

There is no more reason, then, why a man should either sustain, or submit to, the rule of the majority, than of a minority. (Lysander Spooner, selections from “No Treason” (1867-70))