[freedumb2003]

I thought in a democracy it was majority rules. I somehow can't quite see that as much as tyranny as opposed to a minority overruling a majority.

Thank God we don't live in a Democracy. We live in a Representative Republic which has checks and balances to balance the rights of the minority with the will of the majority.

[highball]

Maybe we need a "Civics 101" ping list. ;-)

metmom, the Constitution prevents us from living in a "majority rules" society. We all have rights upon which the majority cannot infringe.

[metmom]

Yes, you're right. What I recall learning in school is democracy but what I learned homeschooling my kids was Representative Republic. I tend to fall back on older learning sometimes as it is more deeply ingrained even if it's wrong.

[P-Marlowe]

Thank God we don't live in a Democracy. We live in a Representative Republic which has checks and balances to balance the rights of the minority with the will of the majority.

Actually, as is shown by this case, we live in a judicial aristocracy where the will of both the majority and the minority are subjugated to the whim of an unelected arrogant intellectual Ivy League aristocracy.