Outdone, outmove, outvote, outwore.

The trouble was the voting system. There were, of course, far more paople in the Third Estate, and it had far more delegates; but voting was not by head but by estates - so the other two could always outvote the Third.

Small states feared that they would be dominated by larger states, whose larger populations could outvote them. The solution was to create a Senate in which each state will have two Senators, regardless of the population of the state.

A majority faction is generally more difficult to control in a standard democracy because, with one vote per person, they will overall have more votes than a minority faction, therefore their ideas will come into effect. To stifle a minority faction one must merely outvote them, whereas, oftentimes for majority factions you must spread the vote to many smaller (state) governments. This is where the "Republic" form of democracy was suggested by James Madison, which allows representatives to make informed decisions rather than fall to "schemes of oppression" of the majority people.

So, in short, majority's harder to hold back. You just have to outvote minority.

Any majority party will always have an advantage over a minority party. This is because there are more people in the majority party so their vote out weighs that of the minority party.