minority rights
Smaller population safeguards
Minority rights are protections ensuring that groups smaller in number or political power aren't overridden by the majority.
These include civil liberties, voting access, cultural preservation, and freedom from discrimination.
The concept acknowledges that democratic majority rule can threaten vulnerable populations: The constitution guarantees minority rights against tyranny of the majority.
- outnumberedExceeded in count
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
- equalitySame status for all
- outvotedLost by tally
- power imbalanceUnequal distribution of control
social justice · legal protections · protected class · anti-discrimination · hate crime laws · ethnicity · opposition · diglossia · religious freedom · political representation · inclusion · ethnic group · voting · marginalized · disenfranchised · underrepresented groups · prejudice · tolerance
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- fairnessfair play, fair shake, fair treatment, fair and square, fair share
- rightscivil liberties, right, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees
- civil rightsequal protection, right to life, civil liberties, desegregation, freedom of religion
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, right to vote
- Canadian Diversitycultural mosaic, multiculturalism policy, bilingualism, pluralism, French Canadian
minority rightsminority persecution
Mistreatment of marginalized populations
discrimination · segregation · apartheid · ethnic cleansing · disenfranchisement
rights, righteous, minority, rightful, minors, rightfully, rightist, civil rights, minorities