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jmg257

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8. As Madison observed...

Reply to sorefeet (Original post)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 02:18 PM

Feb 2013

"Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our
Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,
but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents."

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Why can't the people decide everything [View all] sorefeet Feb 2013 OP

Hmmmmmm. el_bryanto Feb 2013 #1

Google "tyranny of the majority" Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #2

Because half the people on DU would be in prison within a month cthulu2016 Feb 2013 #3

Because you will have a problem when .... oldhippie Feb 2013 #4

Civil Rights would never have passed, for one thing SoCalDem Feb 2013 #5

So how do you make that happen sorefeet Feb 2013 #11

That is always the dilemma SoCalDem Feb 2013 #12

then the only person who decides anything is the person who words the ballot. unblock Feb 2013 #6

And this is exactly why... RevStPatrick Feb 2013 #7

As Madison observed... jmg257 Feb 2013 #8

Because "everything" is not a simple yes/no question frazzled Feb 2013 #9

Because self-important asshats are so much better at it than the public could ever be. bemildred Feb 2013 #10