Posted on 08/14/2015 10:36:49 AM PDT by fredericbastiat1
The more areas in which government interjects beyond its clearly defined Constitutional prerogatives, the greater the probability that it will use taxpayer funds to support causes that violate the beliefs of large swaths of citizens. This is true on a bipartisan basis.
And this brings us to one of the brilliant insights of the Founders, who created a constitutional republic as opposed to a democracy.
In a republic, the rights of the smallest minority, the individual, are protected because of a limited government with negative rights.
On the other hand, in a democracy we get majority rule, where 51% of the people can vote away the rights of the other 49%. Stated differently, democracy tends to yield a tyranny of the majority, which is wrong in principle and most always in practice no matter what party is in power (can majority rule compel virtue, and would such rule be moral even if it could?).
Were our representatives to have remained true to the vision of the Founders and faithful to our Constitution and its animating principles enshrined in the under-appreciated Declaration of Independence, all Americans would be supporting fewer things that violate their consciences and deeply held beliefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at benweingarten.com ...
I like my question better.
“Do you want to give a person who has killed toddlers and kids money just because they’re a dentist and won’t do it anymore as long as they have patients?”
This article is filled with several questions actually.
Hipster Feminist:
“The government must to stay out of my reproductive life”
Same Hipster Feminist:
“The government must give me free contraceptives”
Here’s my question for Planned Parenthood? What’s the other 97 percent of what they do?
Tell that to business owners who don't want to participate the charade of homosexual "marriage."
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