Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by EnderViaAnsible on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:15AM
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Majorities being > than minorities is an aspect of democracy in its natural state, for certain, but I would not go so far as to call it a feature. The bicameral legislature of the U.S. was designed precisely to avoid this "feature"!
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:20AM
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> The bicameral legislature of the U.S. was designed precisely to avoid this "feature"!
Not really, it was just made to weight the scales (in both houses, by different mechanisms) so that a particular set of interests[0] would be less likely be a political minority even if they were a numeric minority. It retained the feature that political minorities were easily suppressed by the political majority, so long as it was a political minority in both houses.
[0] The slave states of the South.