It Can Happen Here

Here’s a timely quote from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, in which he describes the same liability that so vexed the Founders:

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.

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