"Obviously, it is the majority that sets the agenda".
The majority that want the practice of Islam curtailed invoke scholarly support.
"Is it the majority that says yes that you listen to, or the minority that says no?" he asked.
It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority.
Justice Stevens voted with the majority that restored capital punishment in 1976, his first year on the court.
In some cases, refugees return home but for the majority that is not an option and life in the poor nations that host them is usually miserable.
"It is a kind of tyranny of the majority that imposes itself," he added, "and fear is one of the few ways of justifying this.
Indeed, the economic crisis that exploded in 2008 – now becoming a social crisis because the "recovery" bypassed the majority that needed it most – has only enhanced that abundance.
At the beginning of last December, the Northern League – having left the majority that supported the government – convened in Vicenza for what it called "the Northern parliament".
If people only copied the majority, that would never happen.
In 2000, Alito joined the majority that found a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions unconstitutional.
