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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk
Rights, Majority, Minorities
Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.