If power is rooted in the will of the majority, there is nothing to stop the majority from looting and oppressing any minority. Since there will always be more incompetent and lazy men than brilliant and hard-working men, it follows that sooner or later the majority will simply vote itself "bread and circuses" paid for by the productive minority, and the state will collapse, usually resolving into dictatorship or (in the past) conquest by a better-run nation or group.
You can observe this on a small scale in school by observing what happens in a large "group" project: quite often you find only a minority of people working as hard as they can, and a number being willing to take advantage of the efforts of others in a way they would NOT if their own grade was personally on the line. (Many teachers award individual grades even in group projects for just this reason, to forestall this.) You may also observe that a house shared between adults, and rented, is messier and less well-kept than a house owned by a single adult. Same thing: if people can rely on others to do the hard work, and share the fruits, they often will -- often enough to make any kind of collective ownership a routine disaster for humanity. That's just the way we are.
This problem was well-known in the 18th century, and one reason why democracy and republicanism had kind of a bad reputation. Enlightened men tended to favor absolute monarchy, perhaps limited by a powerful aristocracy and/or parlaiment, because (1) a single ruler was limited in the damage he could do; his appetites no matter how outrageous were far less dangerous than the appetites of millions; and (2) he could represent a consisent bulwark against the fads and impulses of the majority. He would necessarily be sensitive to them, since he probably didn't want to end up with his head on a pike, but he would resist them when they were unusually foolish or strange and probably short-lived.
The solution argued by Madison is that a *large* republic would have so many factions that they could never get together and agree on *which* minority they would exploit, and so there would never really be a consistent long-lived parasite majority that could destroy the country by exploiting some productive minority. It's unclear how right he was about that.
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See explanation below
Explanation:
Given the inequality expressions
-5 < 3 OR -5 > 3
The true statement is -5<3 because all negative values are always less than positive values and not the other way round
-5 is a negative value
3 is a positive
Hence -5 is definitely less than 3.
Answer:
“Philip II of Macedonia, author of Greece’s first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, the first great general of the Greek imperial age, and a dreamer of great dreams; one of the greatest captains in the history of the West.” (Richard A. Gabriel, “Great Captains of Antiquity (Contributions in Military Studies)”, 2000, p.84)
“That sense of being one people allowed each Greek state and its citizens to contribute their values, experiences, traditions, resources, and talents to a new national identity and psyche. It was not until Philip's reign that a common sentiment of what it meant to be a Hellene reached all Greeks. Alexander took this culture of Hellenism with him to Asia, but it was Philip, as leader of the Greeks, who created it and in doing so made the Hellenistic Age possible.” (Richard A. Gabriel, “Philip II of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander”, 2010, p.232)
Explanation:
The answer is Henry Stanley.
Henry Stanley was a New York journalist who explored the Congo River in the late 1800s. He is a welsh-born american journalist and explorer. He is famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonization of Africa. Failing to to gain support from British on his plan in developing Congo, he found more success in King Leopordo II in Belgium, who was eager to tap Africa's wealth.
Polices that would allow the use and manufacture of alcohol and the ownership of slaves.