An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Majority System

Spooner, Lysander. "Majority System." New-York Saturday Press, September 18, 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."