Friday, July 8, 2016

Founding Father.

       The first liberal in America may have been James Madison, one of the founding fathers, "and who in the Federalist Papers made the case that democracies, by their nature, endanger the rights of political minorities and must design institutions that protect those rights," according to James Traub. By the way, the Federalist Papers were written by several of the Founding Fathers as guidelines for following the Constitution.
       In other words just because the majority wants things handled in a certain way doesn't give them the right to trample minorities under foot. Still don't get it? Well let me put it this way, if the majority of legislators in a certain state don't want minority voters to have access to polling places or even the right to vote, they can't just make it too difficult to be registered. To the contrary the legislature must make it as easy as possible.
       So, how's that working for you? Still don't get it? The example I gave in the last paragraph is exactly what's happening in the majority of states, and the Supreme Court is finally stepping in to rectify those shameful and inappropriate legislative decisions. Still don't agree? If you still don't agree or understand, you are exactly the reason Madison wrote those statements in the Federalist Papers.
       The majority simply does not have the right to deny the rights of the minority and that includes voting rights. The suggestion of potential voting fraud is a sham. No state has been able to prove fraud in more than one or two cases and most can't even show a single example of fraud. Such numbers do not present sufficient reason to deny the voting rights of millions of people.
       And such suppression of the minorities is almost exactly why we had the American Revolutionary War. Remember your history book? The Colonists were being taxed with no say in how they were governed. Sound familiar?

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