Show Me Democracy
Posted on November 30th, 2008
In about a week, Missouri will officially certify John McCain as their presidential candidate of choice, losing their bell and becoming just another wether.
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RTF 9th Amendment
Posted on February 4th, 2007
…the Constitution doesn’t say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee (transcript not available online, see coverage by the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times)
The best reaction to this attitude towards habeas corpus I can imagine is Mark Jaquith’s: it wasn’t long before he went from “pedantic tool†to “the reason for the 2nd Amendment†in my mind.
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ranked voting
Posted on October 9th, 2004
Ranked voting systems permit the voter to select multiple candidates, indicating an order of preference.
Although instant runoff is more popular and Condorcet is the most “accurate”, I prefer approval voting as a pragmatic solution that is more supportive of third-party candidates. (I, personally, would love to vote Libertarian for representative legislators, without feeling I was “throwing my vote away” and giving up the chance to vote against the worst of the available fascists.)
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