Our country was supposed to be based on a simple principle: Majority rules. That idea has worked well for more that 200 years, but occasionally comes under fire, as it is today. In Washington, a minority of Senators are filibustering two of President Bush’s judicial nominees -- judges who enjoy the support of a majority of the Senate. Meanwhile, Democrats, the minority party in the Texas legislature for the first time in millennia, fled the state to prevent the Republican majority from passing a redistricting bill. At least in politics, though, there’s still some benefit to being in the majority,...