Dont you think legal issues like marijuana and gay marriage shouldnt be voting on.

It makes sense for someone to be president if most of the occupants of the country want him/her to be.but because most believe that gay marriage shouldnt be legal doesnt mean it shouldnt be legal. Sometime when laws are made or changed they should just use common sense, not see how many people agree and disagree. Gay marriage only effects gays and people who make it affect them (thus the effect is there own fault) so only gays should vote on gay marriage because they are the ones effected by it. And with marijuana, look at the facts about what marijuana does to the body, not see how many people (whos parents and televisions filled them with anti drug messages) think marijuana should be. Its rediculous that even the government (the ones who make all the rules and run this country) follows the crowd instead of using common sense.

 

I understand what you mean, but what makes common sense common is precisely that vast majority of people who agree with it.

That's true.

In theory, in a democratic state, (thought we can doubt that the US are purely democratic), the governement does what the crowd wants, because it is supposed to represent the majority (wich of course isn't the case at all right now).

I think there should be a vote on every important issue. If there isn't who's gonna decide... the governement? That doesn't sound good to me...

 

I agree with the poster above about the public voting on every issue.

At first, I felt that if I suggested an idea like that people would argue that it's virtually impossible, but if you seriously think about it. It is possible. Easily so, too. With the internet one could easily access a computer, whether at a public library or your own home.

 

i think if the government pokes its nose into something people have a right to vote on it, but i don't think what people of just one belief or economic intrest want to call a moral issue, is any reason government, any government, should be poking its nose into it in the first place. so when it comes to the two issues cited, i really don't think those are things that are legitimately any of any government's bussiness.

but if government makes it their buissiness, or people of powerful influence make it goverments bussiness, well then i think that's what democracy means for everybody to have some say in it. and in everything that IS government's legitimate bussiness as well.

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I think thats an interesting idea. I really don't understand at all why anyone is concerned with other people's lives if it isn't harming anyone. But I suppose the people that oppose issues like gay marriage and legalizing marijuana have their reasons for it and they should be heard just as well as anyone else - even though they're idiots if they oppose those things... I think that RELIGION shouldn't have a say in those things though, religion is a personal thing and it shouldn't define ANY law.

 

The public voting on every issue would make the u.s. a democracy. Unfortunately we live in a republic where senators do the voting. In order to employ your idea you would have to abolish our current government. Which sadly will never happen, not enough balls in the collective sack of humanity to make any real change these days. Besides that doubt people would vote. I mean come on less than half of all voters cast ballots in our presidential elections why would they want to vote on anything else.

 

Well, what if they put it to a vote whether straight marriage should be legal? I'm all for us getting to vote on important issues, it does seem that lately they've been doing all that for us without asking our opinions, but some things are just guaranteed. America is an equal country, so I think prohibiting gay marriage violates American rights. It's protected by the Constitution. We're not supposed to vote on whether or not we should uphold the Constitution. Marijuana too is all about free choice. We should be allowed to make the choice, otherwise how is this a free country if we don't have freedom of choice? The government shouldn't be in a position to tell us what's best for us. We're adults, we don't need federal nannies. This will probably come to a vote, which hopefully will be ours and not for Congress to vote on exclusively. Prohibition never did anything good for us except make lots of peaceful people criminals. When people want something and the government takes it away, we get pissed. That's just how it is. History is repeating itself. I think there will come a day when they realize that, like alcohol, people refuse to abstain from marijuana and the government is just going to have to deal with it.