Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi...
by _DeadFred_ on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:16PM
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America is specifically designed not to be this and to prevent a tyranny of the majority because original immigrants to the USA were from minority religions where they lived in Europe and had been terrorized plenty.
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Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi...
by scheme271 on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:44PM
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And that designed failed spectacularly from the beginning. As the post you're replying to points out, slavery is essentially the majority deciding that a minority and their descendants have no rights whatsoever. This state of affairs lasted until the 1860s and even then those rights for the minority were severely curtailed until at least the 1960s.
Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi...
by IncreasePosts on Monday January 06, 2025 @05:40PM
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I wouldn't say it failed spectacularly. The trade-off was well known amongst many even at the founding of america. There would simply be no America if slavery was disallowed from the beginning.
A hospital could still be a net positive for society, even if sometimes people go there and die who otherwise would have lived if they did not go to the hospital.
Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi...
by _DeadFred_ on Monday January 06, 2025 @08:29PM
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Was there a majority that was pro-slavery? My understanding was the agreement was that it was a minority that wanted slavery, and that slavery would be kept to that minorities states?
Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi...
by krapp on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:22PM
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The Puritans were a minority group among the original settlers to the US, among the Dutch, French, Spanish, other British settlers and others. The founders and architects of the Constitution and US government were not Puritans.