Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: democracy vs. indefinate incarceration/private deadly force Message-ID: <36@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 17:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.36 Posted: Fri Dec 28 17:27:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 23:02:50 EST References:<1305@dciem.UUCP> <563@unmvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 13 > Of course democracy doesn't imply any set of morals. In a democracy > unhampered by untouchables like a bill of rights, a majority of people > could vote in the complete annihilation of any minority much less the > things mentioned above. Some people (including the writers of the U.S. > Constitution) were or are in favor of well defined limitations on what the > government can and can't do. No matter what sorts of rights the government guarantees to minorities, if a majority of the people in the country wanted to kill a large percentage of the population we'd be in pretty bad shape. Besides, all it takes is a few 2/3 majority votes to rescind the constitution altogether... Wayne