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Ensuring Democracy

Throughout the building of the nation that today is called the United States of American many choices had to be made on how the government was going to be ruled. The main question of focus was whether or not majority rule should be the way that the government functiones. To understand why the founding fathers decided to rule in favor of majority rule, majority rule has to be defined, “A doctrine by which a numerical majority of an organized group holds the power to make decisions binding on all in the group”(American Heritage Dictionary). The Federalist Papers, Democracy in America, and American Citizenship each present their views on majority rule and its presence in the American government. All three of these books suggest their reasons for having majority rule being part of the American government, or if it is even part of the government at all.
Majority rule plays a significant role in how the authors of the Federalist Papers structure their idea of government ruling. Th...

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