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Show How About Majority Rights? There are some individuals in the United States who are so insistent in-sistent upon preserving the rights of minorities that they threaten to 'forget the rights of the majority. major-ity. In a democratic nation the majority ma-jority has the right to rule the country. This idea seems to be absurd in some quarters. Many editors, in the zeal of personal expression, ex-pression, overlook their duty, as patriots, to permit the majority decision, when legally established, establish-ed, to prevail effectively. In the realm of politics this is dangerous. National policy, expressing ex-pressing majority opinion, has the right of way over minority opinion, opin-ion, which has no right to use the privilege of democracy as a weapon to defeat effective government. gov-ernment. With all this talk going around about the rights of individuals and minorities, it is well, occasionally, occa-sionally, to remember that the majority has some rights, which even a minority should respect. |