In a Democracy, it is majority rule. The majority is ruler over the minority slaves. In a large society (like the USA) the majority gives their decisions to a small group to be implemented by them. Of course, even if the small group were honest (the President, Congress, and the Judicial), they couldn't implement the rules of the majority correctly, because members of the majority all have a different idea about how they want the rules implemented. This means that the small group does whatever it wants - a Dictatorship by Group. --- The reason the small group hasn't made formal slaves of all of us is, we don't live in a Democracy. We live in a libertarian society, with the local jury as our REAL government when necessary. Otherwise we are free.