The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“As James Madison put it, the nation ought to be constituted “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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