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Quote from Lysander Spooner,


"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle
that a majority had the right to rule the minority,
we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority,
as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them."


By:

Lysander Spooner (more quotes by Lysander Spooner or books by/about Lysander Spooner)


(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist

Source:

No Treason, 1867

Courtesy of:

http://www.smart.net/~kaz/democracy.html

Keywords:

Democracy

Categories:

Civil Rights, Constitution, Democracy, Equality, History, Independence, Individual Rights, Justice, Republic, Sovereignty, Treason

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Democracy
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