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Originally Posted by janmcn
"We the people" spoke in 2008 when the residents of Florida voted by a 61% margin to ban same-sex marriage in the state of Florida. If you were living here and didn't vote, shame on you. I, for one, was not part of the 61% but I will abide by the vote by "we the people". In our democracy, the majority rules.
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This is exactly the problem! "We the People" of California
also spoke when they voted to define "marriage" as one man and one woman in their state.
But "that eminent tribunal", as Lincoln called it,
over-reached and struck down the will of "we the people" in CA:
"....this kind of judicial presumption is not compatible with the American promise of popular self-rule. As Lincoln observed in his First Inaugural,
If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
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