Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle, Mr. Black meet Mr. Pot & Mr. Kettle, never turn your back on those two, they will vote to kill you, just like they did to Socrates.
A democracy in the political meaning of the word; the original meaning defining a specific political system, means a country governed by unlimited majority rule.
A democracy is a form of government in which the majority has the right to vote on anything, and to pass any laws they see fit, the sole standard of legality being a majority vote, that is a counting of numbers.
Democracy is incompatible with a constitution, because the principle there is that the sole standard of right and wrong in politics is a counting of noses, a majority rule.
The best example of that system are the original city states of Greece, where if you remember the majority had the right to vote a death sentence for a man if they disapproved of his ideas.
And Socrates was the best example, the most famous one, of what is wrong with a system of democracy.
Socrates was condemned to death because a majority of the citizens found that his ideas were subversive to the youth of Athens, {Greece} and he refused to escape though he had the chance. He declared that his fellow citizens were wrong in their decision, but they had the right to vote away his life, which is a ghastly example of the sanction of the victim, and a perfect example of the nature of a democracy, as a political system of government.
Doesn’t mean much since we are a Republic, not a Democracy.