Minority Rights or Tyranny!!

"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
- James Madison, Federalist #47

This succint explanation of the importance of the minority right to object in whatever form (such as the filibuster) to the will of the governmental majority by the 'father of the constitution', has conveniently been ignored by repub right. In their fanatical rush to rewrite the rules of government and of history in the image of their warped christianity, they have trampled on their longstanding commitment to constitutional 'strict construction' and 'original intent' of the founders . Admittedly, these 'conservative' credos have oft been distorted and misapplied by them. Still, they unabashedly toss these notions aside as it no longer suits their frightening powerlust to subscribe to them .

)Click on the link to my post at Huffington Post)



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