[cm2187]

All other democracies have safeguards against the tyranny of the majority. Whether it is representativity by state in the US or in the EU, a constitution requiring a large consensus to change in the US, or the senate being elected by the elected officials of small cities in France, it is not true that democracy is just 50% + 1 vote.

[hunterpayne]

What you describe is called a Republic. Pure democracy is precisely 50% + 1 vote.