http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/02/28/democracy_does_not_guarantee_rights Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/02/28/democracy_does_not_guarantee_rights#comment-9169 foursgiant Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:50:22 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2009/02/28/democracy_does_not_guarantee_rights#comment-9169 The electoral registers for Sunderland North contain incorrect voter registration numbers printed in the columns alongside voters names. Sometimes the Registers are printed with the same error numbers year after year, one particular period from 1958 to 1961 shows that these numbers cannot be common human error as during this period the housing estate was covered by two separate electoral wards and both of these wards show the same and also similar printed error numbers for this one particular housing estate. nearly all of the electoral registers that I have looked at dating from about 1950 to 1972 contain errors, the placed error numbers probably continue up to the early 1990's. The electoral registers for Sunderland North contain incorrect voter registration numbers printed in the columns alongside voters names. Sometimes the Registers are printed with the same error numbers year after year, one particular period from 1958 to 1961 shows that these numbers cannot be common human error as during this period the housing estate was covered by two separate electoral wards and both of these wards show the same and also similar printed error numbers for this one particular housing estate. nearly all of the electoral registers that I have looked at dating from about 1950 to 1972 contain errors, the placed error numbers probably continue up to the early 1990’s.

]]> http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/02/28/democracy_does_not_guarantee_rights#comment-9168 Thersites Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:43:21 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2009/02/28/democracy_does_not_guarantee_rights#comment-9168 "While written constitutions and bills of rights do not guarantee human rights either, as we have seen since 2001" Since long before that, actually. For example, the constitution of the U.S.S.R. guaranteed all sorts of rights; unfortunately, there was no independent juiciary to enforce them. One of the traditional arguments against democracy, especially direct democracy as in ancient Athens and other Greek city states, was that it was arbitrary, unjust and tyrannical with no control on the will of the majority. “While written constitutions and bills of rights do not guarantee human rights either, as we have seen since 2001” Since long before that, actually. For example, the constitution of the U.S.S.R. guaranteed all sorts of rights; unfortunately, there was no independent juiciary to enforce them. One of the traditional arguments against democracy, especially direct democracy as in ancient Athens and other Greek city states, was that it was arbitrary, unjust and tyrannical with no control on the will of the majority.

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