It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

This story is adapted from Ari Berman’s new book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People —and the Fight to Resist It, which will be published April 23. A day ahead of ...

How the Founding Fathers' concept of 'Minority Rule' is alive and well today. It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights?

Const. art. IV, § 4. The very definition of democracy is that the people rule. To put it in starker terms, it means the majority rules. But a system where majority viewpoints would always prevail ...

There was, however, a majority vote to protect the rights of voters in the South. But that vote — the vote to pass the 1890 Federal Elections Bill, which would have empowered the national ...

In their recent book, ” The Tyranny of the Minority,” authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblat dissect the rule of majority-rule and show it to be, in many cases, more fiction than fact.

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...