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<blockquote data-quote="Ethan N" data-source="post: 3232437" data-attributes="member: 29267"><p>Just goes to show how irrational, reactive, and tyrannical majorities are.</p><p></p><p>“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.” – James Madison</p><p></p><p>“It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.” – James Madison</p><p></p><p>“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</p><p></p><p>And, especially pertinent to this conversation…</p><p></p><p>“That government is best which governs least.” – Henry David Thoreau</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ethan N, post: 3232437, member: 29267"] Just goes to show how irrational, reactive, and tyrannical majorities are. “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.” – James Madison “It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.” – James Madison “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 And, especially pertinent to this conversation… “That government is best which governs least.” – Henry David Thoreau [/QUOTE]
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