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Luna Lovegood
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“In addition the United States of America is not a pure democracy rather it a Republic of States.
The reason being was the Founders of this country feared what they called the “tyranny of the majority”.

In other words they feared that the majority would seek to force the minority to live on their terms.”

So instead the minority get to force the majority to live on their terms?
Because that’s what is happening.
California has a population of 39.51 million vs 762,062 in North Dakota. But each state has the same number of senators. So while it looks like Republicans have more people supporting them (because they control more states) it’s just that the Democrat-leaning population is disproportionately concentrated in fewer areas. Democrats in the Senates have fewer seats but represents more Americans and Republicans have more seats while representing fewer Americans. Which leads to the minority enforcing their will on the majority.