Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed. (p. 13)

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied a…

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of com…

The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for gene…

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently chec…

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, all gr…