Does the constitution contain protection for both minority rights and majority rules?

Answer 1

A great example is the checks and balances system within the government. One group does not control all branches of government. The checks and balances system was made to ensure that that the tyranny of the majority does not occur.

Another answer:

The Founding Fathers said in the preamble that one reason for establishing the Constitution was to "promote the general welfare." What they meant was that the Constitution and powers granted to the federal government were not to favor special interest groups or particular classes of people. There were to be no privileged individuals or groups. The Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it as the Tenth Amendment states. The whole principle of the Constitution is that the federal government is forbidden to do anything it isn't positively authorized to do.

The "general welfare" clause is constantly abused in just the way the pessimists of the time of the Federalist Papers predicted. The federal government exceeds its enumerated powers whenever it can assert that other powers would be in the "general welfare," giving the false impression that the federal government is entitled to do anything it wasn't positively forbidden to do, which is opposite of what the actual principle, stated above, is.

Answer 2

true