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To: Don Myers
"tyranny of the majority" means that a small and vocal minority wants to impose its will on the majority of the people.

no, it means that the majority can not take away the rights of the individual.

Read the Federalist Papers, my friend. This country was founded on Freedom and individual Liberty.

91 posted on 12/14/2001 11:43:48 AM PST by Benson_Carter
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To: Benson_Carter
"Read the Federalist Papers, my friend. This country was founded on Freedom and individual Liberty."

It was also founded as a Republic, as in representative government. We elect representatives to represent the will of the people. And the people means all of the people and not just a small minority.

113 posted on 12/14/2001 1:15:00 PM PST by Don Myers
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