In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
One with the law is a majority.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.