This quote:
"They say, while a faction is a minority, it will remain harmless by being outvoted; and if it should become a majority, all its acts, however profligate or violent, are than legitimate. For, with the democrats, the people is sovereign who can do no wrong, even when he respects and spares no existing right, and whose voice, however obtained or however counterfeited, bears all the sanctity and all the force of a living divinity."
-Fisher Ames
2006-09-06 05:47:57 · 5 answers · asked by mandie16 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
This guy is a conservative who believes that the minority voted democrat, and their vote doesn't matter cause the whites make up the majority who vote republican. it also says that the minority is violent and commits more crimes, then he uses sarcasm and says that democrats can do no wrong, referring to the violent acts. "Even when he respects and spares no existing right" that means that he is democrat and liberal and doesn't have conservative values-- When he means counterfeited, he means the democrats are fake
2006-09-06 06:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by james w 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That Pure Democracy is doomed to failure. Without controls, the majority will always tyrannize the minority.
2006-09-06 12:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by Buck B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Might makes right is the philosophy there, but it ain't necessarily so.
2006-09-06 13:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by debop44 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the majority is always right
2006-09-06 12:55:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know
2006-09-06 12:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by antichrist brother555666 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋