There is never a reason to defer to the state

Whilst democracy is a requirement to have a valid state this does not mean that democracy justifies the state. Democracy is a necessary but not sufficient characteristic of a valid state… which is to say that the state is never justified. We can know this because no good action requires the justification of it being committed by the state. If we seek to do good or to use force in a defensive way there is never a reason to defer to the state. All good actions can happen within the context of a stateless society and if the state is required to justify the action then we know that the action is wrong.

The state is never justified whether it uses democracy or not.