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Overbearing majority

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 18, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags James Madison

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