James Madison, writing as Pluribus, wrote extensively about what he called "the diseases incident to a republican form of government, the most dangerous of which he called "democratic tyranny," which is when a self-interested majority tramples on the rights of the individuals and minorities that the Constitution was written to protect, among those minorities, people of wealth and property.  Extraordinary measures were required to minimize the risk of "democratic tyranny," among them Separation of Powers and the Electoral College.

We were never intended to be a pure democracy, which can be the most tyrannical form of government of all, as it would empower a majority of 50.1% to enslave and take the wealth and property of a 49.9% minority.

It isn't the right to vote that made this country great.  It's our protection in the Bill of Rights, including free speech, freedom of religion, the right to peaceably assemble and protest, the right to be armed, the right to a trial by jury of peers