Questions about the voting system in USA

[WarLocke]

Part of why this system is in place, besides historically, seems to be to avoid the "tyrranny of the majority," if that makes any sense at all.

Okay Occhi, I live here and that sentence doesn't make sense to me. Isn't the whole point of a Democracy (err... Representative Democracy, which I'll try not to rant on about) that the nation as a whole (the majority) makes the decisions?

I'm not trying to troll here; I honestly can't understand what you were trying to say with that sentence. :(


EDIT: VVVV I've got to agree. Occhi's post did seem to come out of nowhere. It's not really my business why, but Jarulf's post didn't seem like it deserved a reply like that.