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Originally posted by Prophecy
The people(majority) elect the politicians, who can in turn change the laws through amendments or bills. Also they (the people and/or politicians) elect judges who interpret the law, I don't think people would put someone in a postion to rule on laws that doesn't think the same way they do... Its just one big long connected chain...
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the men that wrote the constitution were genius'.
yes, politicians can alter the law, but the founders didnt want them to be able to take away basic rights (including the natural rights by locke).
that's why they made ammendments to be such a dragged out process. the didnt want a sudden change in majority opinion to do anything drastic. you know how hard it is to get an ammendment right?
and as for judges, what matters here are what federal judges think. and they dont get elected. i dont think any federal judges get elected and most have life terms, so no worry's regarding re-election.
the supreme court does care to a certain degree about majority opinion, but they have went the other way lots of time and i sure hope they do it here.
EDIT: lemme add more.
the majority in this case are the religious groups (mainly christians). it doesnt matter what christians think, it doesnt matter what god thinks. bill of rights was designed for a situation just like this (again, how smart the founders were...).
overwhelming religious majority wants to set a moral standard for the entire population - big no no.