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One of the cardinal difficulties of all free government is to make it hard for majorities to act unjustly to minorities.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “One of the cardinal difficulties of all free government is to make it hard for majorities to act unjustly to minorities.”
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Morley highlights a fundamental challenge in democratic governance regarding the protection of minority rights against majority rule.
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