The First Measure Of A Free Society Is *not* That Its Government Performs The Will Of The Majority.

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The first measure of a free society is *not* that its government performs
the will of the majority. We had that in 1930s Germany and in the South
until the '60s. The *first* measure of a free society is that its
government protects the just freedoms of its minorities. The *majority* is
quite capable of protecting itself.
-- Jim Warren

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