“Tyranny of the majority” is a phenomenon in a democratic society where decisions are made by the majority group and the decision oppresses the minority group, comparable to that of tyrants. The term was first used by John Adams in 1781. It was later popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in his book: Democracy in America; and further disseminated by John Stuart Mill. In their works, Mill and Tocqueville expressed concern about the existence of the tyranny of the majority in a democracy and saw the need for a civic culture that supports freedom and diversity in order to avoid such a tragedy. In order to avoid the aforementioned adversity brought about by the excesses of democracy, Mill's proposal is to strengthen political institutions. On the other hand, Tocqueville emphasized the importance of participation of all citizens in local politics as well as dependence on the good morals of the people. While it is obvious that Mill owes much of his political thought to Tocqueville, as his work over the years demonstrates, he also evaluated many of Tocqueville's principles, resulting in a different solution to tyranny of the majority. democracy is strongly influenced by Tocqueville. One of his first works was Tocqueville's review of Democracy in America, written in 1835. According to Mill, true democracy would only exist if the government was under the control of the people. He wrote: “In no government will the interest of the people be the object, except when the people are in a position to remove their leaders as soon as the devotion of those leaders to the interests of the people becomes questionable. " (Mill, 1835, p. 110) In his earlier works, Mill was not too convinced by Tocqueville's i...... middle of paper ......3, taken from the website of the Liberty Online Library: http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=233&chapter=16538&layout=html&Itemid=27Mill, JS (1840). De Tocqueville on Democracy in America, Part II (JM Robson, ed.). Retrieved from Liberty Online Library website: http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=233&chapter=16544&layout=html&Itemid=27Mill, J. S. (1859). Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, Volume 1. Retrieved from the Internet Archive website: https://archive.org/stream/dissertationsan11millgoog/dissertationsan11millgoog_djvu.txtMill, J. S. (1861). Considerations on Representative Government. University of Lausanne.Mill, JS (1873). Autobiography. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg website: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10378/pg10378.html