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The Constitution has no checks against that. The founders had the opposite fear and largely detested popular democracy and the "rule of the mob". It is function
by mark_edward 9y ago
The Constitution has no checks against that. The founders had the opposite fear and largely detested popular democracy and the "rule of the mob". It is functioning as designed.
Edit: role -> rule
- qubex 9y agoGodel (the logician of Incompleteness Theorems fame) almost failed his citizenship exam (or whatever it is called) for pointing out that there’s almost nothing you can’t do with a 2/3 majority in Congress. Apparently the functionary was on the verge of rejecting his application for having made an accurate observation but some higher power dove in for a last-minute save. http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2012/02/guerra-pujol-on-gödels-loophole.html http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2012/02/guerra-pujol-o...