Tyranny by the majority?

[blazerboy30]

So, the “majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression.” But how?
Instead of everyone gathering on a hill and voting on laws, the scheme of representation was established, wherein we elect our representatives to make decisions. 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.
Or at least, as Madison put it, such factors would “make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens”.


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Have we passed the point where the majority can use the government to take from the minority and receive their services for free?

 

[maxiep]

Harry Reid will alter the rules of the filibuster. The "cooling dish" of the government will be broken by its leader. Watch the cry and howl if the Republicans then take the Senate.

 

[julius]

They need to make it so if you really filibuster you have to be there and actually filibuster

 

[BlazerCaravan]

They need to make it so if you really filibuster you have to be there and actually filibuster

This.