Tyranny of the majority
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The tyranny of the majority is the dilemma facing a democracy when a minority's own interests are consistently blocked by an electoral majority. One of the most common ways of addressing the problem is through provisions in a constitution.
The phrase has variously been sourced to John Stuart Mill in On Liberty and Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. The concept was also mentioned in passing in Federalist No. 10 by James Madison, though Madison did not use the phrase.
In 1994, Lani Guinier used the phrase as the title for a collection of law review articles she had written.
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- Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority (Free Press: 1994)
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