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Democracy is great but it’s not enough. You need some mechanism to prevent to majority from stripping away rights from everyone else. For example, in the US it
by medler 4y ago
Democracy is great but it’s not enough. You need some mechanism to prevent to majority from stripping away rights from everyone else. For example, in the US it is illegal for any state to permit slavery, and this prevents individual states from legalizing slavery, which IMO is a good thing. Until recently, the right to abortion was guaranteed by the right to privacy implicit in the constitution.
except in certain cases
- indymike 4y ago> Until recently, the right to abortion was guaranteed by the right to privacy implicit in the constitution. tldr; Something created by court opinion can be ended by court opinion Abortion was guaranteed by a decision of the Supreme Court, which was based on the majority of the court's opinion of what the Constitution says. As the makeup of the court changes, it's opinion of what the Constitution says changes. Without a Federal law or even more powerfuly, an amendment to the Constitution, abortion is left to the states and subject to 50 different constitutions, courts and legislatures. That there has not been law or amendment says that there is not a strong enough majority or super majority of Americans that want that right guaranteed by the Constitution.