Despite public consensus, there's nothing inherently just or fair about majority rule. In fact, one of the primary dangers of majority rule is that is confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical.Americans should read the wise words of James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 10. There's no clearer statement that the Framers fashioned a republic and not a pure democracy. Our Constitution set limits on not only the power of the three branches of the federal government, it also set limits on the arbitrary will of the people that might be expressed through a majority vote. Madison said, "[M]easures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority." And he's right.
--superpatriot Dr. Walter E. Williams
We are succumbing daily to the will of the minority. Look where this is leading us. We are forced to change our way of life to accomodate very small groups. It this fair? Surely not.
Are special protections which are in effect redundant laws, needed? I feel like my rights are being eroded day after day. Each time a special right is conferred upon a small group, by definition it erodes the rights of the rest at the worst, creates conflicts at the best.