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- From: chloupek@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers"
- Message-ID: <15619.2b601b96@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:06:46 EST
- References: <1993Jan21.160714.12733@PacBell.COM> <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21160942@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu> <1993Jan22.151129.5392@dvorak.amd.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.151129.5392@dvorak.amd.com>, tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
- > In article <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21160942@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu> awootten@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu (Al Wootten) writes:
- >>As president, he should stand behind his beliefs as forthrightly as he did
- >>as a candidate.
- >
- > Bush and my ex-rep in CA Tom McClintock practiced this and I hated
- > their philosophy. Our elected officals represent US, not their
- > personal views. Yes, we elect them based on their platforms, but that
- > does not mean that they have the right to vote against the will of the
- > people.
- >
- > Clinton, as well as Bush, is welcome to publically come out in favor
- > of one program or another, but it is ethically wrong for them to force
- > their ideology on the rest of the nation if the rest of the nation
- > wants something else. That is the main thing that is wrong with
- > politics now. We have a bunch of old queens sitting on seats of power
- > and dispensing their tired old beliefs. It is the PEOPLE that they
- > represent who should have the voice... especially in major policy
- > decisions.
- >
- That is the difference between a republic and a direct democracy. If elected
- officials are supposed to represent the "will of the people" in all areas, then
- we should just have Ross Perot's electronic town hall. Our elected officials
- do *represent* us, but they make the decisions, not us.
-
- I believe we need checks on populism. If our government simply reflected
- popular opinion, most of the South would probably still be segregated. Brown
- vs. Board of Education was not a popular decision. Neither was the move to use
- federal troops to enforce desegregation laws.
-
- Frank
-
- P.S. What do you think about the Supreme Court?
-
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- Frank R. Chloupek
- CHLOUPEK@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Department of Physics -- *The* Ohio State University
- (Not just any Ohio State University)
-
- "The constitution cannot control such private prejudices but neither
- can it tolerate them. Private biases may be outside the reach of the
- law, but the law cannot directly or indirectly give them effect."
- --Judge Jeffrey Bayless (on Amendment 2 in Colorado)
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