Tyranny of the Majority

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Simmons wrote-

For this reason, I don't consider it sufficient that the majority have its 
way.
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D- Either the majority or the minority has its way (since unanimous votes are 
few and far between) (pending utopia wherein nobody interferes in the life, 
liberty or property of anybody else).

The current U.S.A. Congress and State legislature regimes in the U.S.A. are 
gerrymander Tyranny of the Minority regimes (taken from the gerrymander 
minority rule regime of the English/ U.K. House of Commons dating from the 
1200's --- a mere 700 plus years ago) and carried over to the old pre-1776 
English/U.K. colonies and States in 1776).

I note again that *democratic* p.r. methods only came along in the 1840's.   
Old regimes hang on long beyond the time that they should have expired -- 
such as divine right of kings (which keeps coming up in the form of so-called 
strong leaders/ dictators in many countries -- mainly due to the political 
fact of life that the legislative bodies in many such countries are obviously 
evil oligarchies.).

Since there have been NO indirect majority rule U.S.A. Congresses or State 
Legislatures, it is somewhat stretching things to be attacking something 
(democracy and indirect majority rule in such bodies) which has never existed.