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Quote by: Logjam Man, you need someone to explain to you what a republic is. We are NOT RULED BY A MAJORITY. We are ruled by laws passed by representatives elected by the people. The people do not make the laws (except in the case of propositions in various states that has them - I don't think we should have them, but since so many legislatures are clueless, people have enacted propositions.)
We have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that is made to protect the rights of the minority. We do not want majority rule. In that case government could be run by a charismatic despot, as we had in the instance of Bill Clinton  . |
Actually, even under a republic, the majority still rules. The rebublican system is merely administrative, not qualitative. If our country was only a democratic republic we could vote for representatives who would make black slavery legal again. Why can't we do this? Because we are a constitutional democracy. We go with the majority within certain moral boundries.