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Democracy means government laws follow the will of the people..
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Irresponsible democracy perhaps. One would hope for a prudent govt seeing past sheer populism.
One thing that is pretty much unique to the US legal system is the concept of high punitive damages. In most other common law jurisdictions, this sum is a pretty insignificant proportion of actual damages. In the US, it is often higher than actual damages, which is just weird.