Nor should we rely on executive orders to do that - they can be overturned on a whim.
We have legislatures to make freedoms the law, if they'd do their jobs for us. They can only seem to agree enough to give payouts to their donors, though. When they're not busy fighting vapid culture war issues.
Unrelated to that:
> We have legislatures to make freedoms the law, if they'd do their jobs for us.
Yes, but it's important to recognize that this position presumes the status quo is basically okay (maybe not great, but okay). If the status quo is oppressive to you for whatever reason, you might not be so jazzed about a system with so many checks and balances that require overwhelming majorities to pass even popular changes. (I'm not saying it's a bad system. But I wish we were more candid about this really significant tradeoff.)
Not from the perspective of the baby.
Amendment IX was specifically written so that legislatures would not have to enumerate all rights.
Your argument is akin to a bully yelling “stop hurting yourself!” while they bang a kid’s head against the wall.
The draft opinion uses similar logic when it argues the decision doesn’t subjugate women. They are “not without representation”, after all.
Well great, by that logic, I guess the court is planning to go back to giving blacks 1/10th of a vote. “Not without representation”, after all.
No offense, but why do people still think this matters? The US is not a democracy, it’s a republic of democratic states and this is by design. If you want the country to be a democracy, destroy or amend the constitution and remake the country.
The U.S. is indeed a democracy, but it is not a direct democracy. It shouldn't be used as an excuse to wheel in a bunch of tyranny.
The House of Representatives has 435 people. The size used to change after each census but they stopped increasing it early in the 20th century. This makes the system less democratic than it originally was and favours less populated states. The electoral college is based on the number of representatives each state has do it is also less democratic than it used to be.