The Law of Democracy [No. 86]

How much does the Constitution say about the mechanics of the democratic process? It establishes some rules, such as how often elections are, but otherwise doesn’t have many details. Professor Michael McConnell discusses how the “law of democracy” is a result of long-standing practice and judicial innovation, not interpreting the Constitution itself.
Michael William McConnell is a constitutional law scholar who served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has served as Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.
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[@codymurphy3493]

The thing I envy about parliamentary systems is the fact that they can "call elections" and its over in 6 weeks.

[@coreykatzelnick2982]

Why would the electoral college not be passed today? I don’t understand why that’s so implicitly and obviously against democracy.

[@HE_HATE_ME]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in society. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits. Over the course of time the society creates for themselves a legal system that authorizes the plunder and a moral code that glorifies it, with the result being the collapse of the democracy. loose fiscal policy ensues, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. -Frédéric Alexander Fraser Bastiat Tyler

[@thesimptrain]

Alrighty scouts, so you claim the democracy is the best form of government and yet we in American don't even have a true democracy. We are a government run by the rich not the people. As seen in our 2016 election, while the majority of Americans proceeded to vote for Hilary, trump still won, even while be possessed the lower vote. How this happened you might ask? Well that rather simple now isn't it, you see your vote really doesn't matter in the slightest. Its your electors are what matter and their vote trumps yours. No matter how you slice it, in American your power is thin. Note how most American seek impeaching trump and yet it left to the corrupted congress to inevitably make the decision, one their bound to never make. So I ask you, what power do you have? Can you right now go and become and senator, governor, president, etc? or are you limited to your checkbook and forced to simple vote and never get into a place of government. If your narrowminded, you wont see my meaning, and if you open minded you may just find what the truth is, no matter how pretty of nice it may seem. A true democracy is one that the whole population gets to make decisions, which btw is impossible because to get as many people as we have in the united states to agree to every single problem, would take votes every single day and we all know that even that will have its faults. I mean we vote every 4 years for presidential candidates and federal laws, and we still have problems? So I ask you people, What is democracy and is Democracy what it claims to be?