While there is something to be said about majority rule; recognize that there are different degrees of majorities; of which clearly when a proposition or candidate wins, the plurality of that vote and the count so of, should be considered to be relevant, and especially so, when the vote is very close. After all, if 49.99% of the population, is on the losing side, their voice, should not be silenced, as if they had no validity, but rather, if anything, because the vote was so close, their voice deserves to be heard as having actual legitimacy, as that seems intuitively to be fair. But even in those cases in which one side wins by a landslide, the majority should not by virtue of that mandate, ever be in the position in which unalienable rights as well as Constitutional rights are revoked from that side which lost, for to do so, essentially affirms that governments should be permitted to be majority tyrannical, via some deviant sort of majority rule philosophy, so that the majority should therefore do all of the ruling, and the minority or the losing side, just has to accept it as being democratically valid.
For a certainty, those that are in the majority of this or that, are rightfully entitled to the fruits of their victory, but not so in a manner which revokes or takes away sovereign rights of the people, in whole. That is to say, that Constitutions are constructed so that nations are thereby ruled by a set of laws, adjudicated as necessary in a court of law, with the ability to add or modify laws as properly legislated, of which, the constraint so of is that the Constitution is the highest law of that land and that the people, majority or not, are the beneficiaries of that Constitution, so created for their good welfare.
In any system of governance, one of the purposes of such, is to see to it that the most vulnerable amongst that nation, that is, the people without an effective voice, the ill, the infirmed, the poor, the aged, and the disenfranchised, are provided with the robust protection of that government to preclude them from being thereby exploited, abused, or treated as something less than their full rights of being a citizen of the very same nation entitle them to. After all, in America, there are not different classes of citizens, and to thereby believe, that the majority are the de facto higher class, whereas, the minority is the implicit lower class, are the very seeds that create trouble, division, and dissent.
Those that are the representatives of the people, have a hallowed obligation to represent all of the people, and to be fair to those people -- as opposed to falling into the trap of just serving factions, and hence taking care of only those that they believe they have an obligation to, or feel beholden to, in order to continue to secure their favor or vote -- which while seeming just fine for the majority, this does a disservice to the minority, who in turn, should be dealt with, fairly.