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Originally Posted by Da Nag
Back to the poll question - anyone who says "yes", is against the concept of freedom, plain and simple. "Majority rules" can not coexist, with the ideology that certain inalienable rights exist for individuals in a society.
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Well the flaw in what you said is that within the rules of the consituition, we have majority rules. Look at all the BS going on in the senate and the house, right now the Dems have the majority so they rule.
I voted yes, but I also assumed(I know, I know) there would be some kind of a frame work, ie the consituition. Even it though is open for interpetation, and the Supreme court does the interpetation with
majority rules.
I was more looking at it as getting the people vote versus the politicians vote. I do not in anyway believe that 90% of the politicians vote what they believe is right for me. They vote for what serves them the best, that is getting re elected and grabbing more power.
One major flaw in the constituition is that it is not a living document, when it was written things were different than today. It can be changed yes, but the effort is so extreme, by the time you could get an amendment through it probably would be outdated.