“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Creighton in 1887.
We in Utah see it every year when the Legislature meets for its 45-day romp assaulting the basic tenets of democracy. Also in special sessions and often behind closed doors throughout the year.
The oft-repeated and most current references to their abuse of power are, of course, the way they gave the (symbolic hand gesture inserted here) to Propositions 2 and 3. (They haven’t gotten around to Prop 4 yet. But they will.)
It doesn’t stop with legal voter initiatives.