Majority rules?

• Democrazies
  - Butler Shaffer, June 9, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Evils of Democracy
  - Robert L. Johnson, March 11, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Once Again, Democracy Is Not Freedom (and We Are Not the Government)
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, March 1, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Myth of Democratic Peace: Why Democracy Cannot Deliver Peace in the 21st Century
  - James Ostrowski, February 19, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Are We a Republic or a Democracy?
  - Walter Williams, January 5, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Mobocracy
  - Mike Wasdin, November 11, 2004 [Strike the Root]

• Democratic Despotism
  Coercive majoritarianism, nominal ownership of property, a highly centralized and authoritarian state with ever-expanding distributive and other powers, over whose decisions "The People" exert little control—these have inevitable consequences. - Ilana Mercer, September 16, 2004 [Mises]

• What is Democracy?
  - Jude Blanchette, June 23, 2004 [FEE]

• Government Is Not “Us”
  We sing the praises of freedom in the good old United States, but freedom doesn’t mean what it once meant. - Sheldon Richman, June 2, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Majority Rule: The Tyrants Next Door
  The Founding Fathers based our system not on the votes of the masses, but on the rights of the individual. Governments, they said, are instituted only to secure these rights. - Wayne Dunn, May 28, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Democracy By Fiat
  Hardly a day passes without George Bush, congressmen or cabinet members, or their media lickspittles, smuggling into their chatter references to "democracy in Iraq." The words flow as a well-rehearsed mantra, so subtly as to draw no attention to an undiscerning mind. - Butler Shaffer, May 17, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Democracy At Its Best
  In the minds of most Americans, this country is a democracy. I recall looking up "democracy" in the dictionary years ago, and finding that it was such a nebulous concept as to be virtually meaningless. - Paul Hein, January 23, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Exporting democracy
  But while the founding idea of a republic was beautiful, the reality of a democracy is repugnant. - Ilana Mercer, October 17, 2003 [WorldNetDaily]

• What’s Love of Democracy Got to Do With It?
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, September 29, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Fruits of Democracy
  It may well be that years from now, when we look back on that disaster that is unfolding in Iraq, we will decide that the people of Chile got off easy. - Ryan McMaken, September 11, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Binary Math Against Democracy
  The politicians blame each other, and they actually blame the populace as well, which is more commonly known as referring to mandates from the people. - Jørn K. Baltzersen, August 29, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• 'Democracy:' It's a threat to our republic
  Most people believe the United States is a country created with a democratic form of government. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Founding Fathers were almost as fearful of democracy as they were the monarchies of Europe. - David P. Shreiner, June 29, 2003 [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]

• The democracy ruse
  What's wrong with these people? Why are they equating "democracy" with "freedom"? - Joseph Farah, May 19, 2003 [WorldNetDaily]

• Liberty, Not Democracy, In Iraq
  America Should Insist on a Free Society, Not a Tyranny of the Majority. - Robert Garmong, May 12, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Will Iraq Have Democracy or Peace?
  The Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis should each form their own separate republics and allow people in their domains the right to leave or stay and live in freedom. - James Ostrowski, April 29, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Democracy, or Who Made You King?
  - Dmitry Chernikov, April 14, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• America’s Transformation from Liberty to Democracy
  - Randall G. Holcombe, November 18, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• It's NOT a Democracy
  The public education system teaches that we live in a democracy, in which the government is ruled by the majority. The founders of the country were students of government and knew that democracy was essentially mob rule with a thin veneer of legality and that the democracies of history had failed. - Joseph S. Bommarito, November 2, 2002 [Strike the Root]

• Making the World Democratic
  Why? What’s so great about majority rule? A majority may be as tyrannical as a single dictator, and majorities have often deprived minorities and individuals of their rights — exploited, enslaved, and murdered them. Democratic Athens executed Socrates. - Joseph Sobran, August 20, 2002 [Sobran's]

• Do We Want Democracy?
  One important problem with democracy is that it creates an aura of moral legitimacy for acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. - Walter Williams, June 22, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Liberty Is More Important than Democracy
  - Richard M. Ebeling, April 30, 2002 [Mises]

• The Balkans: Democracy Triumphant
  Abundance, Not Absence, Of Democracy Caused Bloodshed. - Nebojsa Malic, April 25, 2002 [antiwar.com]

• Democracy, the God That Mugged Me
  And full speed ahead on picking the pockets of the minority, we might add. - Gene Callahan, April 1, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Democracy vs. Civilization
  - Thomas E. Woods, Jr., March 20, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• That Old Bugaboo, Democracy
  - Tom White, March 4, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• De-mystifying Democracy
  The United States should not be fighting for a democratic Afghanistan. In fact, it should not be fighting for democracy at all--not in Afghanistan, not in China, and not even in America. Democracy and dictatorship are not rivals; they are brothers. - Carter Laren, February 8, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)?
  - Jared Taylor, December 28, 2001 [VDare]

• Democracy or Republic?
  "The following is a response by Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence Reed to a high-school debate student's questions about the Electoral College and the nature of American government." - April 18, 2001

• America, The Republic
  - Jessica Nappi, January 26, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• America: Republic or Democracy?
  The Difference That it Makes - Herbert W. Titus, 2001 [The Liberty Committee] (adobe acrobat)

• Safe from Democracy
  "'A simple democracy,' wrote Benjamin Rush to John Adams in 1789, 'or an unbalanced republic, is one of the greatest of evils.' These two founding fathers of the United States, like nearly all of their fellow patriots, held a distinct disdain for, and distrust of, pure democracy. They correctly feared that a majority-mob would as surely trample the rights of a political minority as a tyrannical king." - Michael Quinn Sullivan, November 9, 2000 [About.com]

• A Fallacy of Modern Politics: America is a Democracy
  - Allan Wallace, National Chair of Outright 1998 - 2002 [Outright Libertarians]

• An Important Distinction: Democracy versus Republic
  "These two forms of government: Democracy and Republic, are not only dissimilar but antithetical, reflecting the sharp contrast between (a) The Majority Unlimited, in a Democracy, lacking any legal safeguard of the rights of The Individual and The Minority, and (b) The Majority Limited, in a Republic under a written Constitution safeguarding the rights of The Individual and The Minority..." [LexRex]

• Federalist No. 10
  James Madison explains the differences between a Republic and a Democracy, and argues that the newly United States should adopt a Republican form of government.
  
  
• Democracy vs. Constitutional Republic
  more information on this false belief (by CommieCrusher)

• America, The Republic
  America is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic, a system where the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law and citizens elect representatives to government. - Jessica Nappi, January 26, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Democracy is no synonym of liberty
  "Today, democracy is taken to be synonymous with liberty. Schoolchildren are taught that ex-Soviet bloc countries are now 'free' because they have become democracies. Politicians justify military interventions by declaring their aim to 'make the world safe for democracy.' Democracy is seen as the ultimate value, the pinnacle of human political achievement. But when people say that democracy is freedom, they are severely mistaken." - Paul Benjamin and Jerry Brito, November 7, 2000 [liberzine.com]

• Why Democracy Failed in America
  "This system we call 'democracy,' and which was actually set up as a republic, could stand only when men where principled enough to make it stand." - Michael Peirce, June 30, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• Is Democracy Freedom?
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, November 1999 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Democracy vs. Constitutionally Limited Government
  "The Founding Fathers recognized that there were certain fundamental rights, such as life, liberty, property, and conscience, with which no government, not even a democratically elected one, could legitimately interfere." - Jacob G. Hornberger, June 1990 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Democracy's Road to Tyranny
  - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, May 1988 [The Freeman]

• Freedom and Majority Rule
  - Edmund A. Opitz, January 1977 [The Freeman]

• The Individual and Majority Rule
  - Ronald F. Cooney, November 1974 [The Freeman]