SOC201H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Moral Authority, Omnipotence, Erectile Dysfunction
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In such a case, the minority would not easily submit to the laws of the legislators: most people support the rights of the majority because the hope one day to profit from them. How in america the omnipotence of the majority increases the legislative and administrative. Some say no need to fear giving total power to majority & nation cannot go beyond justice, but this is words of a slave. In the old world, works were published portrayed the vices and absurdities and mocking the power. Irresistible power = continuous fact, it"s good use only an accident. Effects of the majority"s tyranny on american national character. If tocqueville"s work read in america: many will condemn him, many will also hold him innocent in the depts. Of their conscience: despotism corrupts the man who submits to it much more than the man who imposes it. In the us, real patriotism found among the people but not among the rulers.
