I don't know to what extent this adversarial definition of democracy is true. Democracy literally means the power is with "the many" instead of "the few", and i

I don't know to what extent this adversarial definition of democracy is true. Democracy literally means the power is with "the many" instead of "the few", and in recent centuries it reemerged due to the rise of the urban class who could no longer tolerate centralization of power. In ancient times, democracy was largely ensured by allotment, in our times it's almost exclusively through majority-election. The principle though remains similar.