SOC203H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Technique, Feudalism, Georg Simmel
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The omnipotence of the majority in the united states and it"s effects. In democracies, there is nothing outside the majority capable of resisting it. In several states the majority elected the judges, and in all they depended in a way pf the legislature, whose members had the right annually to fix their salaries. In america, several particular circumstances also tend to make the power of the majority not only predominant but irresistible. It is the theory of quality applied to brains. Under the old monarchy, the french took it as a maxim that the king could do no wrong, and when he did do wrong, they though the fault lay with his advisers. An aristocracy, for instance, could not become a majority without giving up its exclusive privileges, and if i did let them go, it would no longer be an aristocracy.
