After all, if violence can prevent majority rule, it can also be employed to restore such rule. |
Rousseau laid the basis for modern ideas of democracy and the legitimacy of majority rule. |
The danger in such a course is you have majority rule, and that does not necessarily produce the best law. |
They were designed to ease the transition to black majority rule, while avoiding the danger of social revolution. |
Yet in practice, liberal democracy should also allow for checks on government and limits to majority rule. |
In the homogenizing nation-state, justice and majority rule could for some time be perceived as one and the same. |