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Walter E. Williams: Democracy and Majority Rule

By ADF Alliance Alert

CNSNews: "The founders of our nation held a deep abhorrence for democracy and majority rule. In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wrote, 'Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.' John Adams predicted, 'Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).