If Democracy Is The Basis For Morally Legitimate Government...

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14. So what kind of system did we have in those 3-4 years between ratification and the Bill Of Rights?

"So what kind of system did we have in those 3-4 years between ratification and the Bill Of Rights?"

A system where blacks, women, and the landless couldn't vote. Shit, if you put universal suffrage to a vote it might not pass today, in many parts of the nation.

My rights are not subject to a plebiscite. Over my body and mind I am sovereign. You can not vote to tell me what to do with it. You can not vote to deprive me of a vote, the way a lot of my black brothers and sisters were deprived of a vote until 1965.

You're all over the board... conflating democracy without limits and democratic representation.

The only limits in a majoritarian democracy are the limits 50.1% of the populace demands. What part of that don't you understand ?


Here's a question. If Arkansas had a referendum to ban marriage between people of the same gender and it passed with a majority of the vote would they be justified in banning those marriages ?

Of course not because we have rights that are not subject to plebiscite.