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So let's say there are some issues that are not anyone else's business (and so not government's business). Fine. But who gets to decide which ones? Who gets th
by vintermann 4y ago
So let's say there are some issues that are not anyone else's business (and so not government's business). Fine.
But who gets to decide which ones? Who gets the final word?
I think that the question of which questions are the public's business, is itself necessarily the public's business. Which minority concerns are rights which should not be infringed on by the majority, must still be decided by majority.
There's no way around it. Constitutions don't interpret themselves or enforce themselves, much less write themselves, so they don't get you out of this pickle. At "best" they let you abdicate your responsibility for deciding that question.
As I recall, many of those abuses of minorities you list, were protected by such abdication, in that people would rather abide by the US's antimajoritarian process rules than use their majority to immediately fix the abuses.