Democracy states to exist to defend universal values.
As a self instituted form of government, a democratic country limits the range of intervention to the people it is elected by.
Thanks to the endorsement given by the universal values and through the belief that a government should work for the protection of those universal values, any government can trespass its own legitimacy to go and mess into another country's business.

But what are those universal values?

Any accurate answer (no loose notions please like individual liberties since that expression can mean everything and anything) is welcome.
For clarity, please order the answers from the most important to the least important to you. Please also limit yourself to a reasonable number of those universal values( ten would be good)

Thank you for your cooperation.