{"id":431,"date":"2007-02-28T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2007-02-28T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T16:22:58","slug":"democracy-or-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Democracy or Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/WalterEWilliams\/2007\/02\/28\/democracy_or_liberty\">TownHall.com<span class=\"red10bold\"> <img align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/media2.salemwebnetwork.com\/Townhall\/\/ColPics\/columnistsWilliams.gif\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_cphMain_ctrlColumnDetail_ColumnHeaderLabel\" \/><span class=\"Verdana14Bold\">Democracy or Liberty<\/span><span class=\"red10bold\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"ctl00_cphMain_ctrlColumnDetail_ColumnHeaderLabel\">By Walter E. Williams<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"red10bold\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\" \/><span id=\"columnBody\">In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wrote, &#8220;Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.&#8221; That&#8217;s another way of saying that one of the primary dangers of majority rule is that it confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. Liberty and democracy are not synonymous and could actually be opposites.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0817996125\"><em><u>More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well<\/u><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/WalterEWilliams\/2007\/02\/28\/democracy_or_liberty\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TownHall.com Democracy or Liberty By Walter E. Williams In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wrote, &#8220;Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.&#8221; That&#8217;s another way of saying that one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}