"... the people can only act by a majority, and a majority rarely is, and never ought to be, all-powerful. No democrat if he is true to his principles can believe that there ought somewhere in the state to be a repository of absolute power, and to say that such a power resides in the people is to deny that either minorities or individuals have any rights except those that the majority allowe them. That is totalitarianism, for autocracy is autocracy whoever the autocrat may be."
James Leslie Brierly, The Law of Nations (6th edn, revised by Claude Humprey M Waldock, Clarendon Press, 1963), 15.
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