Majorities Quotes
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Major Quotes
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Alfredo Alonso
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I wanted to do everything I could to see that we put a Republican president in the White House after the 2000 elections and give him a Republican Congress, and to add to our majorities in the state legislatures, ... And I am proud to say, sir, mission acc...
Jim Nicholson
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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
John Bright
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Being `at the mercy of legislative majorities` is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Robert Bork
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