tyranny of the majority

Noun

 * 1)  A situation in which a government or other authority democratically supported by a majority of its subjects makes policies or takes actions benefiting that majority, without regard for the rights or welfare of the rest of its subjects.
 * 2) * 1837, Testimony of Alexis de Tocqueville in "An abridgement of the evidence given before the select committee, appointed in 1835, to consider the most effectual means of preventing bribery, corruption and intimidation, in the election of members to serve in Parliament," Hume Tracts, London, p. 142:
 * I suppose, however, that the secret voting has afforded, and will afford, an important security against the tyranny of the majority, which I consider as the greatest evil and the most formidable danger that can attend a purely democratical government.

Translations

 * Danish: flertallets diktatur, flertalsdiktatur
 * Finnish: enemmistön diktatuuri
 * Georgian: უმრავლესობის დიქტატურა, უმრავლესობის ტირანია
 * Greek: δικτατορία της πλειοψηφίας
 * Indonesian: tirani mayoritas
 * Japanese: 数の暴力
 * Malay: tirani majoriti
 * Romanian: dictatura majorității
 * Russian: диктату́ра большинства́