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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by int_19h on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:28PM (#19213424)
Because your right to vote ultimately affects all those other rights. With enough people voting for such, protection for rights can be repealed, or even ignored outright.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by umanwizard on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:12AM (#19225438)
Not really, since a lot of them are pretty unpopular. For example, things like "making it illegal to burn the flag" or "stopping Neo-Nazis from marching" poll very well in the US -- people would happily vote to get rid of freedom of speech if they could.

As for rule of law, there are examples of non-democracies with solidly developed rule of law, like present-day Singapore and Hong Kong, or Britain in the 19th century (and before).

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