(A) The dangers of conflicting irrational majoritarianism with enlightened consensus are, indeed, great in developing democracy.

(B) Real democracy is about mediating the popular will through a network of institutional structure and the law of the land.

(C) While law making and governance are meant to articulate the latter, the judiciary is supposed to protect the former from any kind of excess that might occur,

(D) Unwittingly or otherwise, in the conduct of legislative and governmental functions.

(E)  The principle of separation of powers is meant to embody a desirable tension between individual rights and social consensus.