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 ...but I think there wasn't a better system so far. What would you prefer? 
 Look at the USA. The USA was set up originally with a better system, and still is running on that system to a certain extent. A system that does not infringe on unalienable rights.

Unalienable rights are rights that cannot be taken away from you, not even by a 100% majority rule. They cannot be legislated away. They cannot be ruled away by any court, not even a supreme court. And Governments, institutions and agencies cannot add conditions or limitations to them.

The thing that has changed in the US is the abandonment of unalienable rights. The people have been brainwashed by the socialist public school system into trading unalienable rights for "constitutional" rights, which implies the Constitution grants those rights when it does not . The Constitution explicitly tells the government that it shall not infringe on your natural born, God given rights.

Democracy is the oppressor. Unalienable rights and individual free agency is the liberator.