![]() ![]() When a government represents the will of the people, it actually only represents the will of the majority, which is imposed on all members of society regardless of whether it reflects their individual wills or not. However, tyranny isn’t just political-it can be social as well. Historically, the result was that some groups (including Americans) established representative governments with elected leaders that hold temporary positions and can be removed from office if society wills it. From time immemorial, human civilization has been characterized by the struggle between individual liberty and authority, culminating in the idea that liberty really means freedom and protection from tyranny or oppression. ![]() John Stuart Mill explains that he wants to explore the question of how much power a society or government can rightly exert over individual lives. ![]()
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