Balance of power Quote by Jane Mayer

“By overturning many of these restrictions, the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age.”

— Jane Mayer

“the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice”

— Jane Mayer

Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A…

— Nelson Mandela

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become…

— Lysander Spooner

“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated…

— Paul Lafargue

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority…

— Charlie Baker

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“It was a reign of minority, when the strongest had the best right, and when acts of usurpation were frequent amongst those who had…

— Walter Scott

“United by no fixed principles or objects and destitute of everything like American feeling, so detestable a minority never existed in any country—Their whole…

— Jon Meacham

“Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status…

— Carl Sagan

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities,…

— Walter Lippmann