On the record
And think you that this is the country, and this the age, in which the republican maxim that the MAJORITY must govern, can be long and barbarously reversed?
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “And think you that this is the country, and this the age, in which the republican maxim that the MAJORITY must govern…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan questions the sustainability of a system where the majority is oppressed, emphasizing the importance of majority rule.
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