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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:30 AM

    moon6pence @ tyranny of the majority

    This kind of tyranny was understood by the founders, and the constitution dealt with it, if incompletely.

    Tyranny of the majority is not inevitable in a democracy, so long as the rule of law is sustained.

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