Ast / Branch Beliebt / Popular Gegen / Against Gerichtliche / Judicial Gewesen / Been Gruppen / Groups Häufig / Often Historisch / Historically Mehrheit / Majority Minderheit / Minority Rechte / Rights Schutz / Protector Sohle, einzig, alleinig / Sole Wille / Will
If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
This country, the people of our country, owe our military so much. These are the people that go out there and literally risk their lives to protect our freedom.
