Saturday, July 26, 2008

Some Basic Rights At Risk

Instapundit
Representative government will remain the enduring feature of American
democracy, but the initiative process is a valuable safety valve. So
long as elected officials gerrymander their districts and otherwise
make it nearly impossible for voters to oust them, direct lawmaking
will be popular. That's why attempts to arbitrarily curb the
initiative, or to intimidate people from exercising their right to
participate, must be resisted. It's a civil liberties issue that should
unite people of good will on both the right and left.

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