The death penalty. Are you against it or for it?

Curious George said:

In a democracy, that bureaucracy can only act with the authority given by the people. To try to point at "the state" or "the bureaucracy" as some evil boogeyman acting with its own will is very much to shift blame from where it truly belongs, with the people.

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Only partially true. If it were 100% true, we'd expect that popular ideas would be law, like e.g. stricter gun laws in the US. (But then, calling the US a democracy is also a stretch.)
At the end the blame is with the people, but it's not that they have given the authority to the bureaucracy, it's that they are too lazy and/or too coward to take it away from the bureaucracy.

Heyo said:

Only partially true. If it were 100% true, we'd expect that popular ideas would be law, like e.g. stricter gun laws in the US. (But then, calling the US a democracy is also a stretch.)
At the end the blame is with the people, but it's not that they have given the authority to the bureaucracy, it's that they are too lazy and/or too coward to take it away from the bureaucracy.

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This presents some mistakes too. Firstly, most criminal law is state law not federal law, so you would not expect it to turn on the party who holds the majority on a national level, secondly, biden is part of the executive branch. Thirdly, you have chosen an issue that deals with a constitutional ammendment and would need much more than a simple majority to enact change.

But we agree with whom the responsibility sits, the people.