“The majority wants it” isn’t a strong moral foundation to rest your system of laws on because the majority can be wrong.”
The majority rule is the basis of our government. A group made up of less then 4% of the worlds population does not make a majority.
No, the rule of law is our basis of government. There are plenty of laws we have that do not reflect majority opinion, even when they were passed. Obamacare comes to mind. Just because a majority of representatives may pass something or not pass something, doesn’t mean they automatically accurately reflect majority opinion on the matter.
And we are a Representative Constitutional Republic, and every state in the union is a Representative Constitutional Republic. No state and the fedgov are not democracies where mob rule always wins the day.
Just because we have a majority vote to elect representatives doesn’t mean our system of government is a democracy. We have democratically-elected representatives in a constitutional republic system of government.