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To: NoobRep
"...fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

One could only wish it were so. A minority represented by certain judges has dictated to society public policy in the areas of marriage, abortion, battlefield enemies, and so much more. We live under a tyranny far worse than that of King George III.

8 posted on 06/22/2008 1:15:07 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: ricks_place

That’s why we have a Constitutionally limited Representational Democratic Republic and not a democracy.


9 posted on 06/22/2008 1:38:14 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Just a typical white guy: clinging to my guns, my religion, and my antipathy...)
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