In the US, minority groups have far too much power. Groups such as radical environmentalists, black affirmative action groups, and many others can influence the lawmaking process due not to their majority in the states represented. Yet due to their extremity and volume, they manage to make the lawmakers create laws conforming to their views. This is also true of anti-religious groups that are really in the vast minority. I am not talking about constitutional law groups that support the "...no law regarding an establishment of religion..." clause, but groups that are simply angered by any expression of God. An example of this is the atheist guy who sued to have the pledge of allegiance removed from public schools. Though the pledge of allegiance is not compulsory or expressive of any set religion, the atheist dude has a problem with his daughter(who is, incidentally, a Christian) saying it. He is in the vast minority, but he and the small minority that agrees with him somehow managed to bring the case through several courts without being kicked out of court. Another example of this is the ban of the New York nativity. The City of New York had a program in which they had a nativity scene in a park. This was banned, though it is not, in my view, a violation of the First Amendmant clause regarding religion. It is true that the nativity is "A strong religious symbol" as the court said, but i am sure that if smaller religious groups such as Buddhists, Zoroasters, Muslims, and Jews had put up symbols with state sanctions, the court would not have cared, as the groups would all exist in the happy politically correct fantasy in which many wish to live; but political correctness is an issue for a different essay. In the US, the majority of citizens are Christian. From this statistic, the majority of New Yorkers are Christians. Thus, the majority of New Yorkers have no problem with a public nativity scene.
The government of the United States is supposedly a government ruled my the majority, so why can't there be a nativity scene in New York? The answer is simple: the US government is NOT a rule by majority. Even our presidential election is an example of this. The people vote and are given an illusion of actual power, but then the votes get tallied up and the electoral college voted WHATEVER WAY THEY WANT. They generally go with the popular vote, but they have gone against it in the 1876 and 2000 elections, proving that they have the power to overrule the will of the people. Now, some say that the electoral college is the only way to give fair representation to small states, but i would disagree. The state's electors are determined based on population, so if the electors were eliminated, the states would still have approximately the same say in election. I would also argue that the electoral college can not only overrule the people's will but can do more. Take this scenario for example: Lets say that a candidate won Texas, California, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, Maine, Iowa, and Washington, all by around a 5 percent majority, and the other candidate won all the others states by a majority of about 15 to 20 percent. The second candidate has gained more popular votes, but still loses because the first won the most electoral votes. The votes of the minority in the first candidates states are nullified because they did not win, and because of this the president who is clearly not the president by will of the people is elected. Because of this phenomenon, I would estimate that more than just the 1876 and 2000 election were won without the will of the people. The rule by minority is most vividly demonstrated in the example of the electoral college, and also does the most to remove power from the people, who should, according to the mantra the government is supposed to serve, have all power.