Human rights versus democracy

[mocker]

Sorry if there's already a thread about this.

I got an interesting question at school today:
Which, if any, human right(s) can be broken in a democracy, if the democracy is to be valid (as a democracy)?

Linked!

Open fire!

[Erwin Rommel]

"The right to witheld cas sensitive informations that'll coz greater damage than a sense of victory for the exercise of free press"

[demos]

Depends on how you define democracy.

As long as the mandate is in place from the last election, technically, I suppose, a government could remove the rights to life, liberty, freedom from torture and persecution, equality before the law and so on and so forth.

As long as, in doing so, they retain the majority mandate that they had in beginning, there's really no issue of the 'democratic institution' being breached...

[Bokks]

Demos got it! There is no mandate for a democracy to protect or ensure the rights of its citizens, merely that it has an impartiallyrun elective process. The fact that America, as well as most other democracies, has a constitution that protects--well, rather recognizes--certain rights does not mean that every democracy must. All a democracy is is a government by the people among the people.
Actually, this fact is what Madison, Hamilton and Jay were so afraid of, that the rights of a minority could be destroyed due to the will of the majority.