Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.
Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are articulate enough to tell their stories and sincere enough to make depositions before notaries public. Even scientists concede that these folk saw something.
I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.
The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!
If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!
In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!
