[ameister14]

That's not accurate.

The 'tyranny of the majority' issue is not really one that concerned the founders of the U.S. as much as people think, particularly not while they were drafting the Constitution.

They were more worried that if you give everyone the right to vote, they would rationally vote in their own best interests in the short term, choosing to seize all property held by the landowners.

I also don't know that it's all that "well known that pure democracy does not invariably promote liberal society." There weren't then and aren't now many examples of pure democracy. Hell, at the time there weren't all that many examples of Republics.