Because a true democracy is absolutism; the majority has absolute power.
That's why the Constitution of the United States of America limits the power of a majority.
The Constitution was designed to prevent acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
James Madison
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation… that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. -- James Madison
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Because a true democracy is absolutism; the majority has absolute power.
That's why the Constitution of the United States of America limits the power of a majority.
The Constitution was designed to prevent acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
James Madison
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation… that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. -- James Madison