Except you know all the times it hasn’t you know like the sedition acts, Japanese internment upheld by the supreme court, native displacement, jim crow laws and ongoing system racism, the list goes own.
The protections it provides are on a contingency basis subject to be withdrawn when convenient, it isn’t some magic shield against tyranny.
You are correct, it isn’t a magic shield and that’s why it needs to be protected and propped up to some degree. Like any real shield it won’t stop everything but the less people believe in it the easier it is to take away. I don’t agree with majority rules because that leads to bad things happening so it needs to be balanced out and in a lot of ways what you had gave as examples are when majority ruled. As for sedition, well the US’ foundation was started with sedition.
I would rather take something that works most of the time than none of the time.
Except you know all the times it hasn’t you know like the sedition acts, Japanese internment upheld by the supreme court, native displacement, jim crow laws and ongoing system racism, the list goes own.
The protections it provides are on a contingency basis subject to be withdrawn when convenient, it isn’t some magic shield against tyranny.
You are correct, it isn’t a magic shield and that’s why it needs to be protected and propped up to some degree. Like any real shield it won’t stop everything but the less people believe in it the easier it is to take away. I don’t agree with majority rules because that leads to bad things happening so it needs to be balanced out and in a lot of ways what you had gave as examples are when majority ruled. As for sedition, well the US’ foundation was started with sedition.
I would rather take something that works most of the time than none of the time.