Ability Quote by James Madison

“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

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them…

— William Howard Taft

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes…

— David Boies

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

— James K. Polk

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James…

— Noam Chomsky

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

“Another way to put it is that the majority must not use its power to trample on minority rights. The Founders were very concerned…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

— Oliver Ellsworth

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

— James Madison

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson