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The Tyranny of the Majority  The expression “tyranny of the
majority” is commonly used to denote any abuse by the majority
of the powers which they enjoy, in free countries under and
through the law, and in all countries outside the law. Such
abuse will not be tyrannous in the sense of being illegal, as
men called a usurper like Dionysius of Syracuse or Louis
Napoleon in France a tyrant, for in free countries whatever the
majority chooses to do in the prescribed constitutional way will
be legal. It will be tyrannous in the sense of the lines    • O
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