The Majority · Atlas

in the texts

The numerically larger political party claimed to have a right to rule the minority.

Legislation is the work of this stronger party;

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

The doctrine that the majority have a right to rule, proceeds upon the principle that minorities have no rights in the government;

The numerical majority of a political community, whose claim to rule by 'counting heads' is examined and qualified throughout the passage.

We advise majorities, for their own sakes, not to bring the minorities to bay.

It is merely a foolish fiction to pretend that the majority vote is a test of the will of the people;

Just as a crowd of fools do not make a wise man, so the fact that the bullies are in a majority does not convert their arbitrary rule into liberty.