Because the people are not involved directly in electing the President, and because Supreme Court nominees are the purview of the President, the people really have no voice in who is "on" the Supreme Court. Right now I am aware of how undemocratic the process is by design. Do we the people have a direct say in how, when or why a sitting …
Because the people are not involved directly in electing the President, and because Supreme Court nominees are the purview of the President, the people really have no voice in who is "on" the Supreme Court. Right now I am aware of how undemocratic the process is by design. Do we the people have a direct say in how, when or why a sitting member of the Supreme Court can be impeached, removed? No. We must rely on representatives to " do the right thing." But, to give one example of how the people are not fairly represented and really have no voice in how Presidents and SC justices are nominated and placed, a Senator from Kentucky represents a small fraction of the number of people represented by a Senator from California; so we see and have seen how the will of the people is not simply ignored, but is actually thwarted. These conditions need fixing, in my opinion.
Exactly Les. And the system was designed that way. The constitution was cobbled together by the elite of the era. wealthy, entitled, white men, who designed a form of government to protect them, their property, their position, their prerogatives and their power,
The electoral system was designed with that goal in mind. Senators were selected by each states legislature, and only property owning white men had the vote, and the states legislatures reflected that.
The electoral college was selected by property owning white men. It took 27 Amendments to make us a real democracy.
The founders didn't trust we the people, especially Thomas Jefferson. They were afraid that we the people would use our power, to take away their power and wealth.
By design, careful and deliberate design. The fact that this designing got approval puts me in mind of the answer I always heard to the question of why the U.S.S.R. was permitted to just sweep up half of Europe at the end of WWII: we (the survivors) were just so tired of war...
Because the people are not involved directly in electing the President, and because Supreme Court nominees are the purview of the President, the people really have no voice in who is "on" the Supreme Court. Right now I am aware of how undemocratic the process is by design. Do we the people have a direct say in how, when or why a sitting member of the Supreme Court can be impeached, removed? No. We must rely on representatives to " do the right thing." But, to give one example of how the people are not fairly represented and really have no voice in how Presidents and SC justices are nominated and placed, a Senator from Kentucky represents a small fraction of the number of people represented by a Senator from California; so we see and have seen how the will of the people is not simply ignored, but is actually thwarted. These conditions need fixing, in my opinion.
Exactly Les. And the system was designed that way. The constitution was cobbled together by the elite of the era. wealthy, entitled, white men, who designed a form of government to protect them, their property, their position, their prerogatives and their power,
The electoral system was designed with that goal in mind. Senators were selected by each states legislature, and only property owning white men had the vote, and the states legislatures reflected that.
The electoral college was selected by property owning white men. It took 27 Amendments to make us a real democracy.
The founders didn't trust we the people, especially Thomas Jefferson. They were afraid that we the people would use our power, to take away their power and wealth.
By design, careful and deliberate design. The fact that this designing got approval puts me in mind of the answer I always heard to the question of why the U.S.S.R. was permitted to just sweep up half of Europe at the end of WWII: we (the survivors) were just so tired of war...