Comments on mass rights blog: Why a national popular vote is good for democracy

We're not a constitutional democracy, we'r...

2010-08-04T18:07:20.428-04:00

We're not a constitutional democracy, we're a constitutional republic.

Democracy literally means "tyranny of the masses". That is, 50%+1 of the population can do anything that they want to the 50%-1. An example of Democracy was the popular persecution of the Jews in Europe leading up to, and culminating, in World War 2. That is, the Jews lost their rights because the majority of the people thought they shouldn't have any.

Democracy is evil.

In a Republic, Government is limited in powers and are barred from violating citizen's rights, no matter how many people want to, without due process.

We aren't a democracy. We are a constitutiona...

2010-07-09T13:18:56.081-04:00

We aren't a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Check out SaveOurStates.com for why Massachusetts SHOULD NOT embrace NPV>

Too bad that organization that claims to defend fr...

2010-07-06T20:57:29.643-04:00

Too bad that organization that claims to defend free speech censors comments.

It also guarantees the voice of the smaller states...

2010-07-01T10:18:24.712-04:00

It also guarantees the voice of the smaller states are overshadowed by the big states

"No wonder our first four presidents were Vir...

2010-06-15T20:51:55.083-04:00

"No wonder our first four presidents were Virginians!"

Two Words: John Adams

One more related thought: should Massachusetts hav...

2010-06-15T00:29:04.882-04:00

One more related thought: should Massachusetts have voted against JFK if the national popular vote was shifted by 0.2%?

How would the compact force the states that did no...

2010-06-15T00:27:06.035-04:00

How would the compact force the states that did not join the compact to recount their votes if the margin of the national popular vote is less than 0.5%? there have been 4 presidential elections within this margin, which would spur an automatic recount in many states including mine for other elections (and currently for the presidential election as well). This is 9% of elections, or once every eleven elections. Seeing that it has happened four times, there needs to be an "out" for states if the election is this close. My suggestion is that if the national vote is within the margin that would spur an automatic recount within the state, that the state winner prevail.