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To: fwdude

Maybe because in a representative republic, we do not believe in mob rule via ballot initiatives?


7 posted on 07/22/2013 10:13:53 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: Clemenza

“Maybe because in a representative republic, we do not believe in mob rule via ballot initiatives?”

Then get the initiative process off the books.

We can argue whether it’s good for California or bad for California, but it’s the law in California. And so long as it is, it must be respected.


8 posted on 07/22/2013 2:24:18 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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