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Originally Posted by Derwood
so in your ideal world, do you think the citizens should get to vote on absolutely everything? should the elected officials have no power?
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I think in terms of smoking yes. Hell, Ohio set its minimum wage by vote of the people. I think in terms of personal freedoms it should be 100% up to the population and NOT legislature.
some personal freedoms to me are:
Gun laws
Abortion laws
Smoking laws
Laws such as labor (protecting the rights of workers), chemicals and food additives, transportation etc (safety of the consumer) those are up to legislature.
Legislature is to protect the people as a whole. Other than that moral laws and laws affecting personal rights should be left up to the voters in that community since they are the ones living there and not the politicians, who live in Columbus or DC and visit when it suits them.