Assertion: majority | /r/CapableOf | trample the rights of minorities
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text: One of the original concerns about direct democracy is the potential it has to allow a majority of voters to trample the rights of minorities.
text: Whenever majorities trample upon the rights of minorities—when men are denied even the privilege of having their causes of complaint examined into—when measures, which they deem for their relief, are rejected by the despotism of a silent majority at a second reading—when such become the rules of our legislation, the Congress of this Union will no longer justly represent a republican people.