That is not right. We were and are still are set up to have a tyranny of the majority. But, now we see the Tyranny of the minorities and the tyranny of instant opinion mob-lobby ruled Press.
Don't be confused.
We were set up with individual liberties as the goal. Tyranny of the majority was a well known consequence of democracy and that's why we took efforts to avoid such a system. We did the best we could, but in a collective society it's near impossible. I reject the supposition that we were designed to have a tyranny of mob rule, the goals you read from our founders are quite clear in their contempt for it.
Agreed that we see the tyranny of the minority now. The "moral majority" dictated policy for years and they were most definitely NOT the majority they claimed. Just collectively louder. We see the same now when policy dictates we send home a first grader for bringing in a hello kitty bubble gun or pointing a finger and saying bang.
Doer, I think you are mostly right except that it was our intent to have mob rule. I really don't think we were initially designed that way. Might be a good exercise to start bringing out the Federalist papers and other communications from that era and before. I'm open to the possibility it was intentional, it's just my public school education told me otherwise. Many things I've learned since leaving school have since been discarded as rubbish, this may be another example.