On the writer's notion of dictator-to-be, the Honduran events are causing rightwingers in Honduras and the US to expose their complete ignorance and disdain for the fundamentals of democracy. The first principle of democracy is popular sovereignty, as in the _theory_ of the US Constitution by which all power derives from "We, the People" as a whole. For Honduran President Zelaya to propose a Constitutional Convention and vote of the whole Honduran People on their Constitution is the most democratic , anti-dictatorial proposal he could make.. There can be nothing more democratic than a vote of the whole People on the fundamental law of the land.
As a side note, there is nothing dictatorial about Presidents having more than one term, especially when a vote of the People changes the Constitution to allow it. Does the writer think that the US Presidents who have had second terms are dictators ? The rightwing objections to the wave of Constitutional changes made by the Peoples of several nations in South and Central America expose these rightwingers to the world as anti-democrats and the true would be dictators _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
