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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve
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Originally Posted by Deadlokd
This is what democracy is about ES. The will of the people, or more correctly, the will of the majority of the people.
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I know what a fucking democracy is. It's four wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. Good thing I live in a republic. |
Well... the US is a representative democracy
and a republic. A republic just means there is no monarchy or equivalent institution, and generally that there is more distributed power.
But a referendum is pretty much direct democracy, so that's what's going on there.
It does seem weird that California's Constitution is so easy to amend - presumably the point of having a law be in the constitution rather than being a regular law is that it should be stronger and harder to make changes to. It ought to require at least a supermajority to change a constitution, imo.