The Importance of Elections

"It's amazing how many times, antagonists on both the left and the right, these days, invoke majoritarianism as their rationale when they don't have a majority on their side," he says. James Madison understood that the only true and legitimate way to test the will of the people is to hold elections, lots and lots and lots of elections,. "That's what he built into the system where at every level of government, from small towns to county to state."