Is There Any Other Democracy In The United States?

Introduction

Is there any other democracy in the United States? In fact, this issue is long overdue. This is a problem because the Jacobin democracy, for which consensus is all about. It is dominated by the majority, and whatever it decides, implicitly becomes law. This is required by the very principle of popular sovereignty. After all, who else could be the sovereign, when overthrown the sovereignty of God?

The Ideals of the Constitution

Liberal thinkers have constantly warned that democracy can slide to plebiscitary system and acquire the totalitarian features. As the people wish, by itself, is a pure abstraction, and very similar to the 'will of God', which is so fond of the absolute address of the sovereign. It is as categorical as it is not subject to control (MacKay & Gary, Pp.65). In order to be sovereign, people must be represented as a unity. In fact, empirical people, of course, consist of a set of individuals that are issued for a single political body, in a single organic reality. Who in this case, ultimately is losing, so it is the people of flesh and blood, with all its individuals?

Proponents of liberal democracy are the secularists, secular pragmatists. They know that most of the sovereign can repress the minority. That forced the majority of Socrates to drink a glass of poison. Therefore, liberal democracy wants to limit the sovereignty of the people and guarantee the freedom of all citizens - freedom of dissenters with respect to the sovereign and the majority in relation to himself. In short, liberal democracy must be the power of all individuals. Therefore, democratic power is power limited and constrained, divided and fragmented authority. This is its essence. Otherwise, it would turn into a dictatorship of the consensus, a hostile freedom of populism (Allison & Graham, Pp.81-98).

Let's remember: the constitution is a fetter on the power. It limits the impact of most rights and gives each one individually, which cannot be violated nor to a specific representative, or a majority, no matter how overwhelming it was. In determining these rights meaningless appeal to natural law. Who does it, can 'discover' 'natural rights' in all that he himself desired, such as the right to property for the owner or the right to life of an embryo for a consistent Catholic.

In fact, natural law cannot be found. This is only a metaphysical name by which God and nature are used as an emblem to distinguish their own interests. The same is true for democratic 'ersatz God', and then there is the assertion of the unity of a single organism, and people. This unity is also impossible to discover. Therefore, we have no choice but to take seriously the real people, the ensemble of contending individuals. We must recognize that they are rights which are autonomous in terms of participation of each individual in the general acceptance and, most importantly, changing solutions are essential (Boot & Max, Pp .361-6).

Historically, the very first law was ...