yes the tyranny of the majority.
So it is okay for states to abridge rights but not the federal government.
a majority can be tyrannical no matter what level of government you pick, that's no protection at all. remember the bushies were trying to push for a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage, i assume you didn't like that any better, especially with the current packed supreme court. you have much better odds with a libertarian, who would be more likely to say let the churches define marriage for themselves, the government simply recognizes civil unions as a matter of law. i'm still going with obama, but paul would have been better from a rights standpoint and still the better in comparison with john mcbush.
Of course I think our spending priorities could and should be much better and I think taxes should be much fairer. I simply have no trust in Paul to do that.
i have, i just think it's a shame he's unlikely to get the chance. he's pointed out we could fund the federal government at 90's levels and still get rid of the irs entirely. his argument is, correctly, that the government actually has no constitutional right to tax your labor, they first started it only on the highest income bracket, then made it a "temporary" wartime measure in ww II, then the dependency of congress on the pork process for self-perpetuation in office is what made the illegal thing permanent and assumed normal and legal. and you probably couldn't fund a huge vaterland security bureaucracy to steal your civil liberties in the name of "security" if we didn't let them get away with that tax fraud. i'm starting to finally believe the stories that they want the dollar to collapse in order to speed the transition to the north american union and the amero (it exists, they've already started minting/printing/planning for it, look it up, they're just not going to tell you they're undermining the legal strictures of the republic on this or any other part of their north american union plans. the canadians know more about it than we do, the nafta superhighway etc).
i trust paul more than obama because paul would undermine the illegal structures of the fed (national bank in private hands printing up wealth theft from the people like the framers warned us against) and things obama might not, but obama still beats the psycho mccain.