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For, by doing so the majority would deny the minority the rights necessary to the democratic process. In effect therefore the majority would affirm that the association ought not to govern itself by the democratic process. They can't have it both ways. Critic: Your argument may be perfectly logical. But majorities aren't always perfectly logical.
Second, there is a risk of a "tyranny of the majority" in which the many oppress the few who, according to democratic ideals, have just as much a right to pursue their legitimate ends. [11] [12] [13] In Mill's view, tyranny of the majority is worse than tyranny of government because it is not limited to a political function.
Yet those in the center and those who lean center right have allowed progressives to bully them unmercifully in the past few decades without fighting back, and they've lost the courage to fight ...
A constitution [49] would limit the powers of what a simple majority can accomplish. [50] Liberal democracy safeguards against the tyranny of majority through rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, political egalitarianism and equality before the law. [51] [52]
When you hear "the majority in Congress," you’re probably thinking about the party that holds the most seats. You’d be right, of course. But there’s a much bigger majority, and that’s the ...
The Majority Report with Sam Seder is a left wing, progressive internet talk radio program and podcast hosted by Sam Seder.The program focuses on the discussion of current events and political affairs from a social democratic, democratic socialist and progressive standpoint; to this end, comedy and satire are used from time to time to make key points.
But it was the ballot signature verification measure's majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution's Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent ...
Argumentum ad populum is a type of informal fallacy, [1] [14] specifically a fallacy of relevance, [15] [16] and is similar to an argument from authority (argumentum ad verecundiam).