Supreme Court Right-Wingers Poison Majority-Rule Democracy

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Paul's picture

This horror of majority rule is a hangover from the aristocrat Montesquieu. I'm not a fan of it myself, being an anarchist; but I don't imagine "representative government" is any better for liberty than majority rule is. Indeed, in my current state Oregon, between what we get via Initiative and what we get from the legislature, I'll take the former every time, as it consistently leans more toward liberty than the legislature does. What's more, there is a lot less of it; the legislature considers something like 3000 bills every session.

Oh, and it is not the job of a free people to ride herd on corrupt "respresentatives".