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It’s not always about majority values. Large part of the bill of rights exists to protect individuals from the majority. Anti-discrimination, fair housing man
by njharman 6y ago
It’s not always about majority values.
Large part of the bill of rights exists to protect individuals from the majority.
Anti-discrimination, fair housing many other laws exist to protect against majority.
Democracy is not autocratic rule of the majority. It is rule by compromise.
- grej 6y agoAn unrestricted democracy can be exactly that. But hopefully, a country has sufficient guardrails in its constitution to prevent it from becoming a mob rule.