In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority

You can't create a majority with this election. You can increase the regular minority vote on the council, but you're not going to change the outcome.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other