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minority rights  

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  • In culturally diverse societies, provisions and processes are needed to protect minority rights from the majority and from majoritarian processes. In this way, the cultural, political, and economic rights of nondominant groups can be protected from the tyranny of the majority. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Minority Rights]

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