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Neither solution bears close examination. Proportional representation is a solution to a different problem. If there is a majority, it is a majority, and proportional representation will not make it less so although it may correct some overrepresentation of the majority.
The majority of voters in Northern Ireland since has always been Protestant; the population votes almost entirely along religious lines; therefore any fairly elected Northern Ireland assembly must have a Protestant majority.
The main danger that worried Aristotle, Madison, and Mill alike was that the majority poor citizenry would vote for confiscatory legislation at the expense of the rich minority. For whatever reason, this has never happened. At least we can be confident that the majority will not expropriate the median voter. Subjects: Social sciences — Politics. View all related items in Oxford Reference ».
Search for: 'tyranny of the majority' in Oxford Reference ». All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice. Oxford Reference. There was no way to determine what would happen until such time historical information could be analyzed. The difference is with a representative government the people were slowly excluded from the decision making process allowing corrupt politicians the ability to control legislation.
Corruption cannot survive in the light it needs closed doors and skiffs to hide. Representative government has become a failure. It is the very reason the rich get richer and the poor pay for it!
As long as representative government exists the illusion of ANY politician combating or ending corruption exists.
Direct democracy has occasionally and temporarily impeded gay and abortion rights. BUT, representatives of all 50 states made abortion and sodomy felonies and put thousands of people in jail for many decades. It was Representative democracy, not direct democracy that put Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II, persecuted socialist and communist and their friends during the McCarthy era, have put millions in jail for smoking marijuana for over 80 years and counting, etc.
So, the actual record of actual events show that it is Representatives who are tyrannical, far far far more than the people as a whole who you insult. Are you not a person? Are you a representative? Are you paid to write this claptrap? Here in Colorado, we have far more freedom and the strongest economy in the nation, in great part thanks to direct democracy. Here are 14 important ballot initiatives that the people petitioned onto the ballot and voted for over the last nine election Cycles: tinyurl.
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