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[quote=Anonymous]Checks and balances and the fact that we don't vote on every issue directly like people in ancient Athens are really not relevant here.

Both the president and congress are elected representatives of the people. Supreme Court is not, but they are not supposed to weigh in unless there is a constitutional issue (or two states are suing each other, but that is not relevant) so provided the ban is limited to foreign nationals, they are sitting this one out and, if not, should uphold the ban (in any event, by the time the case gets to SC, we'd all either be dead of ebola or it would have been contained. Nothing speedy about this process).

So checks and balances leaves only congress and the president which brings me back to point 2 - elected representatives are supposed to so what their electorate wants. Not just because it's just but because if a politician keeps doing what majority of his voters hates, he is likely to be out of the office asap. We obviously don't know how the majority from the poll is split geographically, but assuming the majority of people in the districts of the majority of representatives and senators want bans, bans should be instituted. Nor should the president disagree as majority of his electorate wants that as well (this is obviously assuming poll is representational, accurate blah blah).

Is it going to happen? Seeing that our politicians won't agree water is wet across party lines and are about as effective in general as a wet paper towel, probably not. Should it? Yes.

Once again, whether it will be effective or not is a separate topic entirely (I think you will never 100% proof the place but bans/revocation for any visas for nationals of the SR/Guinea/Liberia countries, combined with making it known that any non-citizen who has a stamp from these countries in his passport in the last 21 days will not be allowed in and turned away at the border, will certainly greatly reduce the chances of an infected person coming in). But I do think our elected representatives actually should listen to what their voters want.  [/quote]

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