Nearly everyone belongs to some minority vulnerable to majority will

Evidence

The republican case for having counter-majoritarian protection of at least some laws is fairly straightforward. Majorities are easily formed—they easily become actual rather than virtual agents—and majoritarian agents will exercise more or less arbitrary power if their will is unconstrained. Let the laws be subject to ready majoritarian amendment, then, and the laws will lend themselves to more or less arbitrary control; they will cease to represent a secure guarantee against domination by government. Most of us belong to a salient minority in some respect and most of us, therefore, have an interest in seeing that we do not live at the electoral mercy of the corresponding majority. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 824

Categorization

• SEED: A crisp, citable argument for why counter-majoritarian protections (judicial review, entrenched rights) serve even majoritarians’ own interests, since everyone is a minority along some axis.
• XREF: connects to: Alliances flourish where every group is a minority; Minorities are outsiders who choose to retain their otherness within a state.; Minority status is relative to national context (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Minority status is relative to national context #expands (0.90)
• Alliances flourish where every group is a minority #expands (0.78)
• Minorities are outsiders who choose to retain their otherness within a state. #complicates (0.72)