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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.

Minority rule is threatening American democracy,

writes my guest Ari Berman.

To understand the fight today, he says, you need to understand the long-standing

clash between competing notions of majority rule and minority rights. That clash goes back to the founding fathers who tried to temper what they feared were the

extremes of majority rule by creating institutions like the Electoral College, which prevented

the direct election of a president, and the Senate

which gave equal representation to states with large populations and those with small ones.

The Founding Fathers also reached compromises to give the South a disproportionate

say so that they could ratify the Constitution while remaining slaveholders.

Berman's new book, Minority Rule, connects the debates of the founding fathers and the resolutions they came up with to contemporary politics and issues like partisan gerrymandering, voting rights restrictions, and anti-immigration policies.

Berman has been covering voting rights issues for many years and is the author of an earlier

book called Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.

He's the Voting Rights Correspondent for Mother Jones.

Ari Berman, welcome back to Fresh Air.

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