As you show, you need more history and you ignored the link:
Think about parenting, if you had a democracy with parenting, the kids will choose what they want, which rarely is what is wisest because they do not know. The majority of our citizenry do not know either: case in point why socialism values is growing in America.
Madison’s fear – which Alexis de Tocqueville later dubbed “the tyranny of the majority” – was that a faction could grow to encompass more than 50 percent of the population, at which point it could “sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.” Madison has a solution for tyranny of the majority: “A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking.”
Think about parenting, if you had a democracy with parenting, the kids will choose what they want, which rarely is what is wisest because they do not know. The majority of our citizenry do not know either: case in point why socialism values is growing in America.
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