How significant of a concern is tyranny of the majority in the United States!

If a majority is not entitled to do so, then it is thereby deprived of its rights; but if a majority is entitled to do so, then it can deprive the minority of its rights. ... Of course a majority might have the power or strength to deprive a minority of its political rights.

the 22nd united states congress

usually her father was the one that controlled it after the death of the husband