re: #825 jaunte

I think you may be drawing too bright a line between ‘government’ and ‘citizens’ in terms of things like Jim Crow laws. Yes the local government enforced them, but they were the will of a lot of the voters who could and did also set up an informal system of prejudice and reinforced it with government action.

Like I said, there are plenty of areas that the populace would love the government to get involved, say like gay marriage, that doesn’t mean that voters have the right to enlist the governments to do their dirty work.