The tyranny of the minority would not be any more tolerable than the tyranny of the majority.
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It will be an echo chamber to the House, where the tyranny of the majority is so rampant today.
All of which leads to the question of whether the U.S. today is in danger of becoming a tyranny of the majority.
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The Senate is supposed to guard against the tyranny of the majority.
For the Supreme Court to place the right to marry in the hands of voters in each state is for the Supreme Court to implicitly endorse tyranny of the majority.
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Also, having a large, geographically wide republic and constitutional limits on the powers of government, complete with two branches of legislature, was supposed to prevent a tyranny of the majority from ever appearing.
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Many saw the tyranny of a religious majority poised to replace India's secular governing system.
The will of the majority does not legitimize tyranny nor can it justify the loss of liberty.
Do we really want to build structural imbalances into our government, where a tyranny of a well-intentioned majority dictates the rate of growth of the cost of government, in a way that the minority is forced to move?
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While many of those who lost money or property because of Nazi tyranny are belatedly about to get compensation, the vast majority of those who lost their lives will forever be denied justice.
Are we then destined to live with varieties of majority and minority tyranny along with gross inefficiency in a democracy?
Just as she rejected Islamic oppression in Africa, so in Holland she refused to submit to the will of the majority not to notice, judge or take action against the misogynist tyranny and anti-Western culture of the Muslim minority.
Local tyranny run by permanent majority factions continued unabated and soon was joined by a new kind of large-scale faction that thrived in the extended realm, as the expansive republic grew larger, more diverse and centralized.
Having liberated Afghanistan from the tyranny of al Qaeda and Taliban, the U.S. had the unequivocal support of the majority of Afghans.
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