10-15-2020, 03:15 PM
(10-15-2020, 02:17 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Yes, but didn't things like the end of slavery and segregation and the creation of civil rights come about because the minority overruled the majority?
Did it? Were the pro-slavery sorts the majority? The segregationists and the anti-civil rights crowd? I mean, a constitutional amendment ended most slavery in this country, which requires a majority. Civil rights are based on constitutional and statutory law, both requiring (in theory) a majority. Segregation has a mixed history, so that one's tough.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
