--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you can provide examples where the electoral college and senate > system (as well as jerrymandering,
Again, I'm not a supporter of jerrymandering, but one of the most prevalent uses of jerrymandering of the past 40 years in the USA has been to protect a minority and provide them with an opportunity for electoral representation. I'm talking of course about the African-American community in which many, many districts are jerrymandered according to census tracks in order for the opportunity for majority or plurality Black votes to elect Black members of Congress. > 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/
