[ZeroGravitas]

> The Bill of Rights was designed intentionally to “prevent a sheep and two wolves from voting on what’s for dinner”.

I think this is backward. A lot of the "tyranny of the majority" talk at that time was about a minority of wolves (i.e. aristocrats) trying to balance more democracy (so they don't get taken advantage of by a king) without going too far towards actual democracy (so they could still take advantage of the poor, enslaved, women and minorities).

So a closer analog would be stopping two sheep from voting to take lamb off the menu of the single wolf. Or slaves voting to end slavery.

Of particular historical note is the timing of laws and constitutional amendments that make taxation need a super-majority to change, i.e. giving a minority a veto.