The ideas of which famous political thinker are described below? The problem of freedom in a democracy is how the majority of the people treat the minority. The rights of man, such as participating in making the rules of a nation, are not absolute. Alexis de Tocqueville John Locke John Stuart Mill Thomas Hobbes

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The ideas of which famous political thinker are described below? The problem of freedom in a democracy is how the majority of the people treat the minority. The rights of man, such as participating in making the rules of a nation, are not absolute. Alexis de Tocqueville John Locke John Stuart Mill Thomas Hobbes

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Coleman Black · Answer 1

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Of the authors quoted, what defends the idea that democracy can not become a "majority dictatorship," as described, is John Stuart Mill. The philosopher noted that with the evolution of the political system, most could move to a tyrannical government, oppressing the minority and reducing something that is the main focus of Mill's work, freedom.

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