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When the government acts to protect life, liberty, and property, the majority and the minority may differ as to how that protection may best be accomplished. But the majority may not deliberately pursue a policy of placing at risk the life, liberty, and property of the minority while safeguarding their own. This would violate the fundamental equality that was a necessary condition of the original compact. — Harry V. Jaffa (A New Birth of Freedom^•)