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To: Tahoetech who wrote (20780)	1/3/2001 2:12:29 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

For one who purports to be concerned with minority rights, you express little understanding or appreciation of the mechanisms for protecting them. I suggest you re-visit your answers to my questions. Your equating slavery and women's suffrage to the Electoral College are extreme, to say the least. The Constitution doesn't mention the first two, but sets up an elaborate scheme for the third. What's your understanding of the reasons for the Electoral College, and specifically, what's your reason for abolishing it? Before you even answer, did you know that the same rationale that I expect you to give would be used to argue for abolition of the United States Senate? Are you also in favor of that?

To: Tahoetech who wrote (20780)	1/4/2001 9:03:32 AM
From: Blaine K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Tahoe: You said: <in truth, democracy is what it is, you can not dilute it without it becoming something other than democracy...the majority rules, or it does not...period. > In which case you surely disapprove of Roe v. Wade, where the votes of only nine Americans overruled the wishes of the vast majority of the American people.

To: Tahoetech who wrote (20780)	1/4/2001 10:09:44 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

The United States of America is NOT a democracy. It is a Republic; the Constitution requires the U.S. government to guarantee that the states have a "republican form of government"--not a democratic form of government. If the majority always rules then there would be no Bill of Rights; nor would the federal courts have the power to declare Congressional acts unconstituional. Furthermore, the country is the United STATES; the states retain great power against majority rule. As another response pointed out, minorities are protected under our form of government against the tyrrany of the majority. You can forget about the Electoral College being abolished; there are too many good reasons for its continued existence and there will always be enough small states which will refuse to pass a Constitutional amendment getting rid of it.