You are correct, it isn’t a magic shield and that’s why it needs to be protected and propped up to some degree. Like any real shield it won’t stop everything but the less people believe in it the easier it is to take away. I don’t agree with majority rules because that leads to bad things happening so it needs to be balanced out and in a lot of ways what you had gave as examples are when majority ruled. As for sedition, well the US’ foundation was started with sedition.

I would rather take something that works most of the time than none of the time.