"Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so."

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[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

— James Madison