Friday, April 16, 2010

Congress and James Madison's "Overbearing Majority"

Take a look at this. All too true in all too many aspects?

Here is a bit of Madison's Federalist Papers No. 10,
[M]easures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority … By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community ...
How prescient and incisive was that observation? How accurate in describing the Pelosicrats' approach to the health care "reform" bill?

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