PHIL 1010 Lecture 19: Mob Rule (Part Two)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Kyle Bromhall

Document Summary

Jury duty involves working together to make an honest, collective judgment about the case solely based on the evidence (a crash course on what it means to be a good citizen in a democracy) E. g. , in the usa, only the senate can declare war (not the president) balancing power between the legislature and the executive: we need to make sure that public service isn"t lucrative. We don"t want people in our government who are only in it for the money. We also looked at ways to keep voting honest: an open ballot (let the vote be on a public record, exclude the rabble (temporarily don"t let the unintelligent, poor, etc. vote, abandon the commitment to equality. Mill"s chief concern is to avoid any form of tyranny of the majority". His last suggestion is to give more votes to the moral, the enlightened, the intelligent, etc. in proportion to their level of enlightenment.