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The government is not meant to be majority rule. It was explicitly created to prevent majority rule. The Senate acted as a longer term, more stable body to cou
by SamPatt 5y ago
The government is not meant to be majority rule.
It was explicitly created to prevent majority rule. The Senate acted as a longer term, more stable body to counteract the more popularist House. Originally citizens didn't even vote for Senators, they were appointed by the states themselves.
An entire set of explicit rules restrained what the majority could do (Constitution and Bill of Rights).
Majority rule has a long history of abuses. We shouldn't abandon our system of limiting majority power because of a virus.
- zaptrem 5y agolemmie guess... “America isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-constitution-democracy/616949/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti... “The government wasn’t meant to fulfill the will of the people... it was meant to fulfill the will of my people!” Minority rule has a much longer and more gruesome history of abuses, and it never ends well for the rulers.
- Grakel 5y agoWhat a straw man argument in that article. "not a democracy" simply refers to avoiding decisions based on the public opinion that sways in the wind, sometimes dramatically. See vaccine and mask mandates.