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i actually agree! look at prop 8 in california. it's a mess that only the voting public can make.
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your premise is flawed. we leave everything to the agreement of half of the elected representatives and/or voters.
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hahaha... good post.. makes me smile...
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Especially in leather and a nice little evening make-up...
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Leather and make up are usually for formal events. A romp in the barn is usually the best.
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not how it works
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The concept of the "tyranny of the majority" comes from ancient Greece. It is why we have the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In essence, this concept recognizes that the rights citizens enjoy in the republic should not be subject to the approval of the majority. It is a fundamental tool in protecting the rights of minorities. And it is enforced by not allowing votes on questions of rights. Unfortunately, it is sometimes subverted. Any time voters are given an opportunity to decide, by majority rule, on whether a given group should have fundamental rights taken away, it raises the specter of the "tyranny of the majority." Keep in mind that the 14th Amendment was enacted just a few short years after the U.S. Civil War ended, and it was targeted specifically at the "tyranny of the majority" -- white people -- in the South. Many of the ex-Confederate states adopted so-called "Black Codes" after the war with the express purpose of denying rights to former slaves. In America, we are not supposed to vote on rights. They are guaranteed. mr. macaque writes that "if more than half of the electorate defines marriage" in a certain way, "then that's that". I wonder whether he would be so enamored of "American democracy" if there was a vote on whether he had the free speech right to post on a website called Trans Ladyboy Forum. Last edited by smc; 05-30-2009 at 06:19 PM. |
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it's my personal opinion that courts follow public opinion closely, even lag behind it. hence, what really matters is what you call the tyranny of the majority, because even though the constitution is broad in the rights that it gives, it's applied very unevenly. |
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clarification
I did not mean to imply that we have guaranteed rights everywhere, or that we have all the rights we should have. Rather, I was only describing what is supposed to be the modelfor the provision of rights: that they be guaranteed when granted, and not subject to the whims of the (prejudiced) electorate.
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