The U.S. democracy depends on a system of Laws in which the Majority always rule. The philosophy is that if not everyone, at least the majority of people will be satisfied with the laws and justice system. However This set of laws can leave the minority in a powerless situation completely without a voice. A majority rule isn't always a just rule and the minority are those who suffer. Thoreau Supports this message in Civil Disobedience. The Majority rule is not always a just rule. Thoreau argues that the majority are in power simply through physical strength. “a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest” (26-29). A majority isn’t necessarily just, and it rules on strength alone. Conscious cannot be based on physical strength, and therefore Majorities are not always conscious. “Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?” (31-33). Majorities decide all of right and wrong, and conscious, leaving no room for the minorities.
Minorities get overshadowed and over looked in a system in which the majorities rule, and Majorities aren’t always just, leaving the minorities to suffer.
