ORIGINAL: NorthPA
Don't think so Sylvan -- you're playing pretty loose with definitions of governing.
You are correct that anyone can "ask" or "challenge" any law, including questioning the constitution. But the basic premise is the rule of the majority to protect the rights of the minority and of all citizens.
(Clue --- elections are determined by majority vote)
Laws are designed to be fair and applied to all without discrimmination.
Try "equality" on for size.
George's question is valid to ask -- no contest there. Equally valid is my opinion that he wants "preferred" treatment based on what ---he is a landowner?
I own a truck, should I be exempt from driving laws? I even pay road taxes, therefore I have more rights than someone who uses public transportation!!!!
If you and Georege want to be above the law, I suggest (if you don't want to move to a place that rewards landowners more so than the peasants), you start a petition, schmooze your local legislator and go for it.
Good luck commrade.
- You said we live in a democracy.You are simply wrong, we don't. Our form of government is a democratic republic. Any HS civics student knows that and knows the difference.
- You said "...the basic premise is the rule of the majority to protect the rights of the minority and of all citizens". That's wrong too. Fact is we live by rule of law, not rule of the majority. We are protected by constitutional law FROM the whim of the majority not by it. That's how the founders designed it.
- We elect or legislatures to make laws but they can not make any law they choose, regardless of what the majority wants. The laws they enact must be legal under the constitution or they will be struck downwhen challenged.
"Good luck commrade." ME? LOL, you are the one touting ideascontrary to the founding principles of this country.