If anything it's basic democracy that if 51% of the population demands someone is kicked out, they're kicked out, no matter how unjust.
Democracy means doing what is popular, not what is right.
You do know learning ancient Greek and Latin was standard education of any well-educated person at the time of the American and French revolutions, don't you? And thus that they were perfectly aware of your tidbit of information? And that they elected not to adopt it? Maybe they even wrote about it? Maybe, if you were curious enough, you could have made all this reasoning above by yourself and looked up their arguments and the decades of back-and-forth on the topic before going, today, October 2026, right at "aktchually, Athenian democracy had ostrakon" as if this was a recent discovery that rewrites everything we believe about Democracy?