Fresh Air: How the Founding Fathers' concept of 'Minority Rule' is alive and well today

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question back in 1787 — except, for them, white male landowners were the minority in need of protection.

Listen and Read the Transcript at NPR.org

Previous
Previous

The Atlantic: The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement

Next
Next

Mother Jones: Minority Rule Is Threatening American Democracy Like Never Before