ANOTHER Political Quiz

What happens when the majority passes laws depriving the minority of the right to participate in the political process? Or agree to strip unpopular groups of some of their rights. They majority will never have to face any consequences for having done so.Simple majority rules for whose neighborhood gets to be the site for the next land fill?

Not a minority. The representatives of a majority. Glib, but silly.What about the problem with a majority voting to strip away the minorities rights? For example denying gays the right to the political process by referendum?Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Parts of it, yes.But even as it stands, the 14th Amendment is not interpreted literally right now. If it were interpreted literally, there would be no point to either the ERA and the issue of gay rights would have been settled long ago.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Maybe not grid locked. It seems to me that the public is going to make some call if there is a referendum.

Yes, that would be hypocritical. But I don't see anyone expressing anything like that opinion.

That's a gross misrepresentation of the objections to your proposal.There are advantages to operating a sizable country or state as a democratic republic rather than as a direct democracy. One of the advantages is that I don't have to be an expert on every conceivable thing on earth, and that I can spend most of my time doing the things I am particularly good at, which does not include deciding on a zoning issue on some street in this town that I never visit or whether a stop light ought to be installed on a street I'm not likely to visit.In fact there are some problems for which I value the opinions of the experts far more than I value the opinion of the mob. I don't trust most people's ability to make themselves experts. I am a little more trusting of their ability to recognize someone else's expertise when they see it.No, I don't want to have people in Tennessee vote on whether they can hog all the water from the Chattahoochee river before it flows into Georgia. I want some smart people representing each state to sit down and work out a plan. I don't want to have to quit my day job to weigh in on things.