by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2020 | Blogs, Constitution
A pure democracy, where 51 percent of the people have the right to do anything they want, is not a desirable form of government. It means tyranny of the majority. That’s why America’s Founding Fathers instead created a constitutional republic, not only because they...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Like many supporters of individual liberty, I’m an anti-majoritarian. I don’t want my freedom to be at the mercy of 51 percent of the population. For all intents and purposes, I want the Supreme Court to protect the country from democracy. So, based solely on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2019 | Blogs, Constitution
While she’s mostly known for radical proposals such as confiscatory tax rates and the Green New Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also made waves with recent comments about imposing “democracy” on the economy. In a discussion last year at Ponoma College in California, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2015 | Blogs, Constitution
If you want to go to a Presbyterian church instead of a Baptist church, should the government be able to interfere with that choice? Even if, for some bizarre reason, 95 percent of the population doesn’t like Presbyterians? If you want to march up and down the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2012 | Blogs, Society
Thomas Sowell, George Will, and Walter Williams have all explained that the Constitution imposes strict limits on the powers of the federal government. This means, for all intents and purposes, that it is a somewhat anti-democratic document. And by anti-democratic, I...
