If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate system (as well as jerrymandering, corrupt campaign finance and lobbying, out-of-distric funding of local elections) etc, helps any minorities in the US in substantive and sustained ways, I would give your arguments more credence and support.
A proposal that would actually be in the direction of protecting minority rights (and one needs to first make a case that rights are being violated) would be to guarantee all native americans of 50% or greater NA heredity living on reservations 10-20 house seats. And perhaps 30 seats to all living below 15,000 / income. Then the structure would appear, at least on the surface to protect minority* or more importantly, underpriveledged rights. i might tend to support such a system, if we could reform the other non-democratic aspects of US political system. * I don't see reasons to absolutely focus on "minority rights" if such are not being abused. Asian indians or japanese imigrants are a minority but seem to do quite well in the US. Why give a particular minority class special priviledges if they are as a class already quite priviledged? > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > It's not so much a globbing on to power as it is a protection > > against the misuse of power by a majority. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
