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Originally posted by Trilidon
Tyrrany, come on now.Last time I checked this country was majority rule not the more vocal minority.
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The "tyranny of the majority" is actually a very old precept. It's what happens when a majority takes steps to ensure that it remains a majority in perpetuity. It figures prominently into the writings of Jefferson, as well as a number of other noted constitutional scholars. A majority is not a de facto grant of license for
force majeure, and it is the duty of the minority to resist it by any means possible.
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." -- Larry Flynt
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." -- Giordano Bruno
"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." -- Thomas Jefferson
"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise [values that were] embodied in the Constitution itself." -- Sandra Day O'Connor