What's human rights and majority rule?

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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What is the difference between human rights and majority rule? Well, majority rule means an governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority, and this is a basic rule of democracy. When the candidate of a paticular party receives more than half of the vote, then he will be in charge of the government until the next election comes around. There are times when we(as Americans) don't agree with the majority vote, but there's not much we can do about it. Except expressing our feelings about it and move on.

The framers did not want any faction of the wrong people acting unjustly towards any other faction of people. This allowed for the Constitution to reflect their tyranny about majority rule, especially temporary majorities. This is how they insulated cerain rights(such as freedom of speech) and institutions(such as the Supreme Courts) from the popular vote or choice. The framers, for effective representation of the people, insisted that the majority rule should not be solely rely on the interests or the shifting thoughts of opinion.

Now, everybody may have a defferent view, idea, or opinion about the human rights. In my opinion, our human rights are the rights that we have here in the United States. Those rights that are listed in the Constitution: Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Peaceful assembly, etc. These are only a few of the rights that we have. Yet we sometimes take these rights for granted.We also have the right to keep and bear arms and the right to vote. In statement of these two amendments, Congress can not pass a law against it. But Congress does have the right to lay and collect taxes. Which no one ever likes to pay. To be able to vote here in the United States, you must be eighteen years old, and you must also be an citizen of the U.S.

There are many other rights that i could get into, but for the sake of not being too boring i will not do that. We have these rights for a reason, and the founding fathers had a good solid reason for this. If one person is able to al,ost unlimited power over one thing, then that person will want more of it. Having this kind of power can go to one's head, impairing his judgement and thoughts. Eventually he would become so violent that he would anything to obtain that power he "so wants." That is the reason for the Constitution. To prevent something like that from happening. That's a good enough reason for me though, i do not know about you.
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