Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Referendums Message-ID: <4440@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 14:53:01 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4440 Posted: Wed Oct 10 14:53:01 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 14:53:01 EDT References: <809@ubc-ean.CDN> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 20 > I agree that there are certain matters that should not be put to > the electorate by way of a referendum. ... > However, there are numerous ones that > could be; for example, the question of whether to raise the > drinking age back up to 21. > > As possible safeguards, referendums could me structured such that: > - questions dealing with minority rights would not be permitted > ... You are contradicting yourself. What about the minority aged from 18/19/whatever to 21? This is a minority-rights question if I ever saw one... [No, I am not in that age bracket myself.] -- "Kids are people too." Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry