Her Broken Broom
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It was a republican system and Constitutional authority that stopped [segregation].Stop calling your opponent a magician.
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Why? You got problems with the union?
The trickery is you are trying, through a sleight of language, to dispute the context of events. It was not just some (impersonal) "constitutional authority" that stopped blacks riding the bus. In actuality, its was citizens agitating against moral injustice, which begat a general discontent against the status quo, which in turn brought about pressure on political representatives -- who eventually passed the appropriate resolutions and then, crucially, enforced them on a federal leve.
And they enforced them on states in which the majority of the voters might not have been in agreement with desegregation.
I call that "democracy at work". I do not know what you call it. Perhaps "tyranny of the majority".
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I meant observed. Now make your point.
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The Constitution can be interpreted and, subsequently, observed in a manner of ways and approaches. There are people who want to treat the document as something sacred and consider anything the Courts do as judicial activism! There are others who accept the simple fact of life that as life moves on, so do the laws, constitutional or not.
And their observation.
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