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Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars
I think that's the way democracy is supposed to work.
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James Madison would argue it isn't. His argument is that a federalist democracy, our basic founding structure, protects the minority from the "tyranny of the majority" at a national level. Basically a collection of mostly self-governing states would prevent a national majority from expropriating the minority since states rights would provide protection from such occurrences. Of course we long ago ceased actually having a true federalist structure (if we ever did) and more and more of our federalist principles seep away every day.