woodguru wrote:
Two kinds of states rights in question here, states are interfering with civil liberties in obvious violation of federal laws (abortion and gay rights to name two, voting rights to make it three)...States violating constitutional rights is a threat to liberty as well.
States with less than a million people having two senators while hugely populated states have one per over ten million people? Not in any true democracy, one person one vote, PERIOD. Unfair to low population states, too fucking bad. California needs something like over a hundred representatives to have fair representation. No more presidents winning electoral and losing popular.
Two kinds of states rights in question here, state... (
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Well, you are partly correct. We live in a finely-tuned, ingenious construct called a REPUBLIC.
Only a fool or an illiterate person would wish to life in a true 100% democracy.