Why Is the Constitution Not Democratic?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : What the states kept under the Constitution was referred to in the language of the day as "the police power" -- a term that includes law enforcement but also those powers that relate to the "health, morals, and welfare of the people": including the still-familiar state (and local) responsibilities for education, family law, marriage and divorce, most matters relating to business, the prevention of vice, and such housekeeping responsibilities as roads, land use and zoning, trash collection, etc.
48% : Congress shall make no law" -- so says the First Amendment -- respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof; nor may Congress interfere with the freedom of the press, speech, assembly, or petition.
44% : It frustrated conservatives when the Court upheld the right to abortion; it frustrated liberals when the Court upheld the right legally to own a firearm in Chicago.

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