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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The majority of voters would, as de Tocqueville I think noted, vote themselves the treasury if allowed. This is why we don't allow simple majority rule.
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Take it up with Less, because the two of you believe different things.
The reason we don't have simple majority rule is because a bunch of people who are dead now agreed on a Constitution more than two hundred years ago, and for various reasons and in various ways it gave more power to some people than to others. Majority rule was not on the table. The system has evolved since then, and is significantly more democratic now than it was then. Nonetheless, giving more power to some people means that others have to give it up. Sometimes they don't agree and it takes force, which is why we had a civil war and then later Army troops in public schools. Sometimes they agree. Suffrage didn't take another civil war. But don't pretend that that our government was created by an intelligent designer. It has evolved, and it's not done.
