Re: "more than half the voters???"

[Charles Fiterman]

At 12:58 PM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
>You're asking a bit too much of a voting system. Shall we
>define a system in which majority rules unless it wants
>to do something bad? Sorry, but democracy doesn't ensure
>that the people will do the right thing, or won't do horrible
>things. So that means that you'd take away democracy?

Constitutional Democracy requires super majorities
to do some kinds of things. This has turned out to
be a very good idea. I doubt we would be having this
conversation legally if that were not so.

The Constitution isn't perfect but its better than
what we've got.



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