The key here isn’t just that the national government legalized gay marriage everywhere. It’s that the supreme court legalized gay marriage everywhere. I don’t think checks and balances were implemented perfectly. But I think some kind of checks and balances are important. In order for a law to pass, you need the House, the Senate, and the President to agree. Or for the House and Senate to each get a 2⁄3 majority. And then it needs to be enforced by the executive branch and upheld by the judicial branch. And everyone in here is someone that had to get the majority to vote for them.
What happened here was a Supreme Court ruling. Nine people, who were appointed rather than voted into office voted with the barest possible majority. And now reversing that requires either that they reverse their ruling (which they’d have to do on their own, since we can’t exactly vote them out) or a constitutional amendment, which is extremely difficult.
The key here isn’t just that the national government legalized gay marriage everywhere. It’s that the supreme court legalized gay marriage everywhere. I don’t think checks and balances were implemented perfectly. But I think some kind of checks and balances are important. In order for a law to pass, you need the House, the Senate, and the President to agree. Or for the House and Senate to each get a 2⁄3 majority. And then it needs to be enforced by the executive branch and upheld by the judicial branch. And everyone in here is someone that had to get the majority to vote for them.
What happened here was a Supreme Court ruling. Nine people, who were appointed rather than voted into office voted with the barest possible majority. And now reversing that requires either that they reverse their ruling (which they’d have to do on their own, since we can’t exactly vote them out) or a constitutional amendment, which is extremely difficult.