Doc is right, Gore won the popular vote, but lost the electorial college. The ironic thing is that when it was set up by the framers, they did it due to lag time in comunication. Now it works by not allowing the large metropolitan centers rule election day.
And actually, you have it wrong about rights of the minority but majority rules. Majority rules also means 'mob rule'. If majority ruled we might still have slavery, women would not be allowed to vote, etc. etc. What the framers created was a 'representative republic'. The folks we send to Washington are supposed to listen to all constituents, and then vote their conscious, based on what is their opinion of the best for the folks back home. Of course that was when we actually had 'citizen legislators' that voted on what was best for the 'folks back home', and not what was best for themselves or campaign contributors.
The rights of the minority can NEVER be greater than the rights of the majority. EQUAL rights for all. And I know the arguments that blacks and women were excluded at the time. The key there is 'at that time'. when the time was right, it was the very same constitution and process they used to gain the 'equal' status. So the system works!!
That is the ONLY reason I oppose gay marriage. They have the same right ot marry as I do, that is to say 'equal'. What they seek is elevated status, a special right. I also know that if it is passed, then I have the right to marry a man, but trust me I want. Unless he is filthy rich, half dead, impotent, and able to sign a pre-nup and will that leaves it all to me.... lol. ( A little humor there ) Once you open that door for one, it is wide open for all. The slippery slope theory. But it is the SAME argument that is used to defeat such things as euphanasia (SP?).
Still think majority should rule?
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