Actually, America is about rights. The rights of individuals. The government exists to secure those rights. It is only on legitimate matters of government that majority rules. In areas where the government has no business, the majority can go pound sand.
laredo4: Actually, America is about rights. The rights of individuals. The government exists to secure those rights. It is only on legitimate matters of government that majority rules. In areas where the government has no business, the majority can go pound sand.
"Majority rule" is more descriptive of dictatorships than of the US. The idea here is that nobody rules. That's the result of individual rights. The only function of the majority is that they get to select the governement. But the government doesn't rule us; it's supposed to keep us free. (At least that was the original idea.)
Is there anywhere to recover the ones we've lost?