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Majority System

Spooner, Lysander. "Majority System." New-York Saturday Press. 18 Sep. 1860: 3.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
commentary
Abstract: 

Spooner critiques the democratic system of majority rule and the concomitant assumption that the majority "have the right to rule, or to exercise arbritrary power over the minority, simply because the former are more numerous than the latter."