Reply #4: where's the democracy in the Constitution?

[ulTRAX]

I've already given the figures on the amendment process.

Candidate's who fail to get a majority of the presidential vote are routinely imposed upon the nation by an unaccountable star chamber called the EC.

50% of the Senate represents a mere 15% of the population.

Together a minority president and Senate can pack the federal judiciary with Right wing Neanderthals or enter the US into international treaties.

The House is not reflective of the population. Up to 50% of the people are denied representation in our winner take all elections. Gerrymandering can give a party 70% of the seats with 50% of the vote.

We've all been brought up to understand WHY the Framers devised the Constitution we have. We've not been brought up to critique it. So we live in this political haze pretending we have a democratic government. Election 2000 proved that the world's only superpower is not even under the control of its own citizens. We really do need to strip off the blinders and face this issue head on.