Sandra Day O'Connor Doubts Decision To Take Bush V. Gore

The United States works, or it did work, because of the covenant We The People make with our government:  We agree to live under the rule of law in a democratic republic (where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide) as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws, and that will be applied to everyone.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representatives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, that all bets are off.  
No government can stand once that happens.
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