[Olog-hai]

Red herring.

Frankly, it was the USA making a turn towards being more democratic that led to this kind of judicial tyranny, since the Seventeenth Amendment altered the accession of Senators (who provide advice and consent for the appointment of Supreme Court justices) to be elected democratically by popular vote rather than represent the respective state governments by appointment thereby.

In Ireland, the amendment process requires popular referendum, JFTR. Nothing can be more purely democratic.

[one4perl]

How is that a red herring?

Were you not just arguing that we’re a Constitutional Republic? What’s more republican than a nomination and appointment by a body of elected representatives? Furthermore what does this have to do with our amendment process - the ratification process requires not only 2/3rds of the Senate/House, but also 3/4ths of the states legislatures agreeing. Nothing exists in a vacuum, the will of the people is expressed in there.