Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Liberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power.” ~ William Kornhauser (1925-2004) ProfessorSource: The Politics of Mass Society, 1959