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I thought it was going to be a case of mob rule.

Law and order must triumph every time above mob rule.

This would give the public a greater share in the legislation process, which could lead to what has been called "mob rule".

She is no softhearted girl who would let the poor or the mob rule, either.

You are trying to make a virtue of mob rule.

Sorry Simon, this is not, as you say, mob rule.

And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule.

A process they believe has eliminated, to the further extent possible, the feared "mob rule" mentality.

Such elite concerns centered in large part on the "tyranny of the majority," or mob rule.

Curiously, though, mob rule has not led to chaos.