Rachel Richards and her supporters contend that Referendum 1 seeking to raise the threshold for changing the use of open space is undemocratic or minority rule. This contention is deliberately ...
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Minority silenced, democracy suffocates
IN a democracy, the minority is often misunderstood. It is easy to dismiss it as noise, obstruction, or the resentment of ...
How did we reach this point? Millions of Americans are watching helplessly while President Donald Trump and the Republicans relentlessly dismantle and defund important government programs that are ...
A recent writer suggested “we still have majority rule” This view, like other popular fables (Columbus discovered America, the Alamo was a fight for freedom, etc.), is wrong. In its entire history, ...
There are occasional moments, on social media, that become larger than themselves. It was the intense summer heatwave of 2018, and I had just opened Twitter during the lunch break of my summer job.
What is more American than that the majority rules — the principle that 50.1% carries the day when decisions affecting all of us are made. The majority wins, and the minority has to accept, even if ...
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