Isn't this a quintessential threat to democracy when laws are imposed not by the elected Representatives of the people, but entirely contrary to their wishes as they express them through the vote?
Tom McClintock: “Isn't this a quintessential threat to democracy when laws are imposed not by the elected Representatives of the people…”
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McClintock questions the legitimacy of laws made without elected representatives' consent.
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You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.
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