Peter Hitchens Quotes
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
Hitchens, Peter. "At last, the truth emerges: The Outers want to stay In." The Mail on Sunday, 28 Feb. 2016.
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This quotation illustrates the "winner take all" conceopt of many political cultures that call themselves and think of theselves as a democracy. But a true democracy does not allow a tyranny of the majority--especially a very narrow minority.
This was the classic, historical argument the Fascists made to justify their take over of democratic societies; the argument made by every military junta that illegally seized power; by Julius Caesar when he took control of Rome.
The electoral college had tied between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, and under the Constitution, this threw the decision to the House of Representatives. The House was deadlocked politically between Federalists and Democratic Republicans, but Jefferson had won the popular vote by a substantial margin. Morris, a leading Federalist, and one of Jefferson’s political enemies, however argued that the will of the people should be respected, and the man who won the popular should be President. The vote then went to Jefferson who became our third President.
Peter Jonathan Hitchens is an English journalist and author. Hitchens writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. He is currently a columnist for the The Mail on Sunday. Hitchens has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory.
