Tyranny of the Majority

From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville's central warning that democratic societies risk a new form of oppression in which the majority's moral and political authority crushes individual independence and minority dissent more thoroughly than any single despot could.
Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 7

The famous chapter titled 'Tyranny of the Majority' where Tocqueville argues unlimited power is bad in itself and that the majority in America possesses both physical and moral power to crush opposition.

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Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 7

Contains the celebrated line: 'I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.'

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