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... majority . Let us look more particularly at this last assertion . Democracy invokes the majority principle , not once and for all , but con- tinuously . The majority are not a determinate body who lord it over a minority . In the ...
... majority . Let us look more particularly at this last assertion . Democracy invokes the majority principle , not once and for all , but con- tinuously . The majority are not a determinate body who lord it over a minority . In the ...
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... majority or a minority that arrogates political liberties exclusively to itself -in either case democracy is dead . Domination by the majority becomes mass domination , which always ends quickly in the rule of the tyrant . Hence we ...
... majority or a minority that arrogates political liberties exclusively to itself -in either case democracy is dead . Domination by the majority becomes mass domination , which always ends quickly in the rule of the tyrant . Hence we ...
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... majority or plurality of their votes . The way this right is exercised , the only way , is by the free expression and free organization of opinion , so that if the majority disapprove the " hypotheses " of any established system they ...
... majority or plurality of their votes . The way this right is exercised , the only way , is by the free expression and free organization of opinion , so that if the majority disapprove the " hypotheses " of any established system they ...
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Our Neglected Heritage | 3 |
Liberty Equality and Fraternity | 12 |
The Rule of the People | 22 |
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