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And if the people vote for strict immigration restrictions, including those based on immigrants' beliefs, that decision should be respected as much as any other
by fiblye 9y ago
And if the people vote for strict immigration restrictions, including those based on immigrants' beliefs, that decision should be respected as much as any other, should it not?
- systems 9y agoand the people who voted no, and lost the vote they are what .. non-owners winnings the vote, doesnt give you owners ship of the country, it gives you ownership of the vote
- strictnein 9y agoElections have consequences.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoNot in America, no. This country was explicitly founded on a fear of majoritarian tyranny eroding what its founders saw as inalienable rights. The reason why we have a constitution that permanently enshrines things like freedom of speech and religion is exactly because the founders worried that some form of "democratic despotism" would try to vote them away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority