Helaman 5

Mormon explains that the Nephites had reached the point that - 

"...their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.

3 Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction."  (Helaman 5:2–3)

I worry that we are heading in that direction.