Federalist 22 defines "the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail"
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This section on the failures of the early American Confederation seems particularly relevant to current debates about how much power a minority faction in the US Senate ought to have. 
"To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser."
(That was Alexander Hamilton.)
Here's James Madison defining the "republican principle" in Federalist 10:
"If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote."
Here's James Madison defining the "republican principle" in Federalist 10:
"If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote."
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