This year’s Law Day theme, “American Democracy and the Rule of Law: Why Every Vote Matters,” goes to the very heart of the most basic and fundamental principle of our democratic system of government. The Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution emanated from an intolerable situation in which the citizens of the colonies of America were subjected to taxation by a government in which they had no say. Throughout our nation’s history, many lives have been sacrificed and much blood has been shed by members of our armed forces and by private citizens in defending and protecting our right to vote.
Today, in many communities, although we have the unfettered right to vote, there is often a poor turn out in elections. The justification one often hears from someone who fails to vote is that their one vote “wont make a difference.” Such an attitude is not only wrong on a number of levels, it undermines the very notion that, as Abraham Lincoln stated, we are a government “of the people, by the people [and] for the people.” Our right to vote comes hand in hand with each and every citizen’s obligation to vote.
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