Double majority

tyranny of the majority as a grave threat to the American democracy, but what does he mean by this? The power of the majority is threatening, as Tocqueville states, “It is of the very essence of democratic governments that the empire of the majority is absolute; for in democracies, outside the majority there is nothing that resists it” (1.2.7.235). The majority is dangerous, in a sense that nothing can overpower the laws and decisions they want to see appear in the United States. The majority is…

instrument. As it moved from the background to the foreground musicians began experimenting with new techniques while expanding the range of the instrument. The new demands from musicians on the instrument could no longer be met by the once mighty Double Bass. The need for a compact, louder, and more…

On Sunday, October 30th, I attended a live performance by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk as a part of their 2016 U.S. tour. When I walked into the concert hall, there was an electric atmosphere as a crowd of people was waiting in anticipation to find their seats and settle down to enjoy the show. In order to have a better idea of what I was about to experience, I read the playbill that explained how the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra is the premiere musical…

At the Rex Jazz and Blues Bar on 194 Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach…

evident in the classic film noir, Double Indemnity. Walter Neff, an insurance salesman develops feelings for his clients’ wife, Phyllis Dietrichson. Together they team up to commit a murder; the murder of her husband. This progression is shown through three different cinematography components: lighting, camera angles, and composition. Over the course of 107 thrilling minutes, Walter Neff becomes a whole new person due to his relationship with Phyllis. In his film Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder…

title like “Much Ado about Nothing” leave much (or really anything) to be desired, in the case of this play the word “nothing” ironically holds many meanings and great thematic weight. In describing his love for Beatrice, Benedick asserts “there’s a double meaning to that” and this same principle applies in regards to the title (cite). The first interpretation outlines the obvious, asserting that many of the play’s events are based on events that didn’t happen as a result of people being…

women. He believes that majority tyranny suppresses freedom and growth. We see that around the world women are not seen as the majority tranny so their voices are suppressed. Rules, Laws and regulations are created without considering their voices and perspective. When we have a big government, they become over baring and become the majority tyranny. Liberty comes only from limiting the power that is exercised by society over the individual. When the will of the majority grows, they are able to…

The government is expected to provide the basic necessities of life for it’s people. A socialist democratic state allows for the majority of the wealth to be held by the mass while still allowing individual freedoms to coexist. Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Many western nations value individual freedoms while still demanding…

exchanged one type of tyranny for another- the tyranny of the majority. The tyranny of the majority arises, because the will of the people is "dumbed down" to the will of the majority of active citizens. Governments effectively works in tandem with the tyranny of the majority, because a simple majority is the set benchmark for many political procedures. For example, the conservative revision of the ACA passed the House with a simple majority. Legislation doesn't require unanimity; the majority's…

social tyranny by the majority. Mill states, “ Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...” (36R). He explains that social tyranny is greater than the political atmosphere. Mill then goes on to state that there is a penalty when the minority does not secede to the majority it will prevent…