كثيراً ما تُقرَّر الإجراءات، لا وفق قواعد العدل وحقوق الفئة الأقل، بل بالقوة الغالبة لأغلبيةٍ مصلحيّةٍ متسلّطة.

“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.”James Madison — The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788 (1842)