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> they serve at our pleasure No it actually doesn't and shouldn't. It would create a tyranny of the majority.

• Nadya 11y ago
  Would you rather have tyranny left to the hands of a few?
• ironsides 11y ago
  That my friend is called Democracy. When a majority rules..
  • jMyles 11y ago
    And that's why the United States was designed precisely to avoid becoming a democracy and instead be a republic.
    • ionised 11y ago
      And look how that's turned out. It took less than 200 years for it to devolve into a full-blown plutocracy.