Silence Of The Minority In The United States

Since the beginning, humanity has a responsibility to develop an organized way of living as a whole. Developed from the ideas of governments before them, the United States established a republic government. A republic allows for the people of country to elect certain individuals to vote on issues. Typically, the elected men and women should reflect the values and ideas of the majority of the country, since they were elected by the people. Although the majority values are reflected through the elected officials, as America, the minority has a right to their different values. This is the ideal way of running the government, but there are exceptions. These exceptions silence either group ,the majority or the minority, which changes the government’s attention. …show more content…
The United States embraces this idea of different views with different political parties. They allow any person or group the chance to have their solution to the issue be selected by the government, but respectfully, the majority wins on the issue. This fact is not a problem, but Alexis de Tocqueville’s idea of tyranny of the majority can become a problem in the government. This concept is the majority taking over America and public policies, which silences the minority. The majority gains control and takes action to benefit themselves. This takes the constitutional rights of the Americans in the minority. For example, slavery in the early years of the United States is a prime example. During this time, white men were the majority, and the slaves were the minority. They used their power, as the majority, to continue slavery, which were against the rights of a individual. This power silenced the minority and made it nearly impossible to abolish slavery. This idea of the tyranny of majority is possible and takes away from the rights established in the United States