"Why is democracy a good form of government?"
It isn't.
That's why the United States is a Constitutional Republic, and not a democracy; democracy in the United States functions in the context of a republican form of government, representative and indirect, subject to the rule of law, not men – as men are incapable of ruling justly, where citizens are safeguarded from the tyranny of majority rule.
It isn't.
That's why the United States is a Constitutional Republic, and not a democracy; democracy in the United States functions in the context of a republican form of government, representative and indirect, subject to the rule of law, not men – as men are incapable of ruling justly, where citizens are safeguarded from the tyranny of majority rule.