... which is a term that brings together the fear of how popular pressure threatens individual freedoms, he believed that peoples rights were being denied and that political society should be organised into groups because apart from some voting rights and even then only for the middle and upper classes the public had no say in political matters. Mills argued that rights to the individual freedom could be suppressed by majority rule. Alexis De Toqcueville (1805-1859) was a French political writer and he thought that the tyranny of the majority could be avoided by a system of strong local government or decentralisation, although he also felt that the public opinion tended towards tyranny. He believed that organized groups were necessary as mass participation by the public was impossible beyond voting. This system is working in the American political system where there is a system of checks and balances in place so that ...

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