Are you an idiot?

[razorsharp]

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as they try to use the popular vote to take away the minorities’ constitutional rights.

California lets its citizens vote directly on various topics. Are you saying this is bad?</p>

[FountainSiren]

<p>So many responses…and not a single one in the affirmative. </p>

<p>Perhaps many of us would have said “yes” but would have preferred not having an entire thread dedicated to our singular–if inveterate–idiocy (though I can think of a few who should have stepped out of the line-up on this one…perhaps that is why most of us slyly took a step back).</p>

[3togo]

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as they try to use the popular vote to take away the minorities’ constitutional rights. </p>

<p>California lets its citizens vote directly on various topics. Are you saying this is bad?

Here in Mass there are lots of people that believe that a popular vote shold be allowed to decide social issues … for example, a popular vote could be taken about African American’s right to vote … in essence, on any social issue, the government should abide by the desire of the majority … and our government is explicitly set-up to avoid the tyranny of the majority over minorities in regard to their constitutional rights. If the majority can get a constitutional amendment passed then it’s a new ball game … but under existing laws the majority can not vote away the minorities rights.</p>