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Okay but repeatedly and blatantly trying to subvert democracy should mean that you don't get to participate in democracy anymore for the same reason that you should be banned from a chess tournament if you kick the board over and pull out a gun the first time someone puts you into check.
What if that is legitimately what the people "want" and see voting that way to cast their belief in such a major change?
It's a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The people get to make the rules at the chess tournament. The courts... work for the people.
I know that would be a particularly bad change, but if the majority of people truly want a pathway for it, what other way is available?
it's also a government where "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights". when the will of the people conflicts with human rights, humans rights are supposed to win.
If ¾ of the population wishes to enslave the remaining ¼, should they be able to?