Originally Posted by
DoesntMatter
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I don't know if he is American, but some Americans like myself are totally fuccking pissed that the government is passing unconstitutional laws left and right which trample upon our freedom.
This is the problem- I haven't met many people who understand this simple concept but Doc DUrian who used to post here was one of them. The US is NOT a democracy- it is a Constitutional Republic. Even if 100% of the American population wants some law passed, if it goes against the Constitution, it cannot become law. The problem with this, of course, is that the US will always be a democracy in practice- if a majority of people agree with something which is unconstitutional, it will slide.
Thomas Jefferson stated that he wanted the US to be a Constitutional Republic for the very reason that the majority cannot infringe on the rights and liberties of a minority- for example, so people like you and all the other prohibitionists cannot tell people like me and mammadon what we can or cannot ingest.