It's usually good news when people call collectively.
Was there ever a time when the majority was right?
I've worked with Fred Upton, and I think we've got a lot of common agreement on energy production.
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
