Excellent!

>Although most of our founding fathers were Christian

And greatly "Christian" of a sort that doesn't match well with most of what "Christian" implies in contemporary time: namely, Deist with hefty Enlightment undertones such as "God" and "Nature" sharing lots of interchangeablility. One with such beliefs would probably receive a good deal of criticism from contemporary "heavy weights" like Jerry Falwell and Albert Mohler.

> Prominent among these guidelines is that the minority will not be tyrannized by the majority.

Yep, respecting and protecting individual's right is the only difference between mod rule ("majority rule") and Democracy.