{"id":1702,"date":"2009-05-26T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2023-08-28T01:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:27:07","slug":"tyranny-of-the-plurality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the Plurality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8068019.stm\">California backs gay marriage ban from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a><\/div> <p>There isn't a whole lot to be said about this decision.<\/p><p>The ruling declared that<\/p> <blockquote>It is not a proper function of this court to curtail that process; we are constitutionally bound to uphold it.<\/blockquote> <p>But, in fact, the <em>process<\/em> specified by the state constitution does not allow any-and-all amendments that can find support amongst a plurality of voters.  The court chose to put <em>democracy<\/em> ahead both of the constitution and of personal freedom.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California backs gay marriage ban from the BBC There isn't a whole lot to be said about this decision.The ruling declared that It is not a proper function of this court to curtail that process; we are constitutionally bound to uphold it. But, in fact, the process specified by the state constitution does not allow [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,104,4],"tags":[154,47,155,156,157,442],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-bisexuality","tag-election","tag-gay-marriage","tag-homosexuality","tag-marriage","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}