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On Thu, 4/21/16, xxxxxx@shadowgard.com <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Truck Stops Rather Than Air/Seaports
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, April 21, 2016, 5:12 PM

 On 21 Apr 2016 at 16:30,
 Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

 > It can also just as easily be the other
 way 'round.
 >
 >
 Where the 'minority' imposes it's will on the
 'majority'.
 > ('higher'
 courts are prone to such behavior)

 Thing is, that's the whole *purpose* of
 things like the Bill of
 Rights (and high
 court decisions regarding rights).

 The concept that there are some things the
 majority is *not* allowed
 to do to
 minorities.

 And I have yet
 to see a complaint about "activist courts" and
 "denying the will of the people" that
 *didn't come down to "they
 won't let us do X to people we don't
 like"

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And as always it depends on just who's ox is getting gored!

The majority vs minority thing always boils down to this;

"If I like it, it's good. If I don't then it's not!"

Appealing to the courts id just another way of getting one's way.

Just as appealing to a legislature or an executive is.

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