Law and Justice - Antigone and the Defense of Tradition - 6.6 Debate: Antigone or the Public?

Most critics of the play, The Antigone, believe that the author Sophocles is sympathetic with the heroine Antigone and with her act of civil disobedience, that he sees her actions as just even though they're direct disobedience of the law of a legitimate king. But let's change the scenario and think about the implications for law and justice. Imagine that in ancient Thebes there is no king, Creon, but in fact there is a democracy and the people of Thebes vote by majority rule, majority decision, to ban the burial of this traitor, Polynices. Would Antigone's actions contravening the laws of this state, of a democracy, still be just? Or would we rather shift our sympathies towards the public and their decision to ban the burial of this traitor, Polynices?