Summary Of Chickens At The Heart Of Neighbourhood Dispute By Stephen Carolver

The article "Chickens at the Heart of Neighborhood Dispute” written by Sophia Fischer explains the situation between vegan neighbours with noisy chickens and older neighbours who wont tolerate the noise. In the end this is an example of citizens needing to respect the basic tenets of democracy to be able to maintain a functional democratic system of government. The principals that are being violated her are majority rule and minority rights as well as the necessity of compromise. In this particular situation, the older neighbours represent the majority rule that something needs to be done about the noisy chickens. Meanwhile the vegan couple represents the minority rights because they’re wants shouldn't be ignored either. Instead, the necessity