TurretLauncher t1_j858959 wrote
Reply to comment by starhoppers in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
That's called majoritarianism, and it's exactly what the Bill of Rights was meant to prevent:
> The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
US Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
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