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Re:A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to T... by alphonsegaston on Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:35AM (#14264676)
Not in America, no. This country was explicitly founded on a fear of majoritarian tyranny eroding what its founders saw as inalienable rights.

The reason why we have a constitution that permanently enshrines things like freedom of speech and religion is exactly because the founders worried that some form of "democratic despotism" would try to vote them away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

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