[yendu bwam]

The majority can only make rules that do not infringe upon the rights of the minority. Suppose the majority decided to tax yendu bwam at a 95% rate. Since the majority wants it, there's no better alternative, right?

The fact is, NittanyLion, that if the majority of voters want tax at a 95% rate (and of course, they do not), they could vote in representatives who would pass a law to do that - and there is nothing unconsitutional about that. That's how our system works. In our system, majorities can pass anything that's not unconstitutional. I NEVER said that if a majority wants something, there's no better alternative. Just that in our democracy, majority rules (as in any democracy) - subject to consitutional limitations.

[philman_36]

Just that in our democracy, majority rules (as in any democracy) - subject to consitutional limitations.
Show me from anywhere anything by the Founding Fathers where they said outright that they created a Democracy! Don't give me any of this "modern day" mumbo-jumbo either. I want the source. No Alexis de Tocqueville either. He wasn't a Founding Father.
If you can...
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin
Keep it? Hell, you don't even admit to it, much less want it!
If you support Democracy you are a Democrat, PERIOD!