Why didn't the founders want a pure majority-rule democracy?

Nancy Eubanks stated that everyone would agree that the Founding Fathers “wanted to form a representative democracy — democracy defined as a form of government ruled by the majority of the people.”

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battle of saint-mihiel, (12–16 september 1918), allied victory and the first u.s.-led offensive in world war i. the allied attack against the saint-mihiel salient provided the americans with an opportunity to use their forces on the western front en masse.

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slavery, abortion, donald trump, gay marriage, racial rights, immigration  

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anything that has been broth up to the supreme court is something of grate political divide   so just look as court cases