San Lumen wrote:Narland wrote:The proposal can be construed as undemocratic, but it is Constitutional -- the US is a Constitutional Federal Republic in Union of member States. The US Constitution guarantees a republican form of government to every State. In a Constitutional Republic the Citizen has three civic votes -- the vote at the ballot, the vote at the grand jury, and the vote at the petite jury. The Citizen also has three civil votes with his opinion -- the vote with the soap box, the vote with the ballot box, and when that fails the vote with the ammo box.
It seems a good way to stop cities from oppressing those in the rest of the state.
How would it be constitutional or democratic? It's a violation of one man one vote.
How are they oppressing the small towns and farms? Be specific.
Re: one man one vote myth. Please reread my post. The Supreme Court blew it on that one. The ballot vote is but one of a myriad of votes the a free people have in a free society -- i mentioned the three civic and three civil votes, and we also have economic votes -- we can vote with our labor (where we cast our productivity by choosing by, with and for whom we work), our wallet (where we cast the fruit of our labor in currency) and our feet (where we live and travel and have our dwelling). It is a despotism such as a police state (or judges legislating from the bench in violation of their oaths of office) that wants to constrain the People to one mere vote at preferable with a rigged ballot box. One only has to look at history of brutal totalitarian regimes that let their subjected play-things vote to give an illusion of freedom and self-determination (self-governance).
The state of Oregon is an example where a few counties with urban population decide for the rest of the state the statutes by which they will live despite the preponderance of rural voters who have diverse interests, concerns and concepts of what constitutes good legislation. In the political-culture war the urban centers shove their legislation through so inconsiderately that not a few times the legislators of the rural counties refuse to show up for there to be a quorum.