This is from "The Federalist No. 51", "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments."
Quote: "Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure."
My Interpretation:
When reading this, aside from the rest of the article, I felt like this was speaking to me. It's very much true, there are always going to be two different kinds of people, the majority, and the minority. I do agree, that the issue at hand, and if you read this quote carefully, is that while we divide the level of interests among the people, we simultaneously dismiss the interests of the minority. It's false to think that the interests of the minority are inconsequential. They are still very much important. They exist, in the realm of life, and are problems that truly exist, and need to be taken care of, as much as the majority's interest need to be taken care of. That very well may be the problem with our government today. We have "surrendered our power" for them, because they are supposed to help and support us, but now power is shaped and bent to their will, and there are people that have real problems that aren't being addressed because it doesn't affect a certain other group of people. I am not saying either, that the right of the majority needs to be dismissed either, but it should not be that the concern of one group gets addressed and the other dismissed. There should be a system where the concerns of both groups are handled, because at the end of the day we are all human beings, and some of us live in the slums, while other's can't even imagine what the slums are. So it that sense, just this one quote stood out to me, because that alone, says enough about how our government, and the system is unjust.
How it relates to class:
We spoke about bias in class. Here lies, an obvious bias for the "majority", whatever that consists of.
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