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Re:Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chos... by rsynnott on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:52PM (#23398837)
That happens in Europe too. Homosexuality was legalised in Ireland as the result of a decision by the ECHR, for instance. Irish people also got the right to travel for an abortion via the Supreme Court (though legalisation of abortion in Ireland was via referendum).

I don’t think it’s possible to have a democracy where the courts can’t change things in this way; the law never covers everything.

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Re:Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chos... by rayiner on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:30AM (#23403696)
> I don’t think it’s possible to have a democracy where the courts can’t change things in this way; the law never covers everything.

That’s an odd way to put it. In Ireland, for example, the law does “cover” abortion: both before, when people wanted it to be illegal, and now, when they decided it should be legal. In both cases democracy (rather than courts) decided what the law should be.

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