Never say never. When the representative cannot agree with his constituents, it has always been on the side of a moral and ethical issue, in which the representative has the job of caller the constituentcy to higher ground. The representative can vote anyway he desires, and the consequences are a strong possiblitity of not being re-elected.
The civil rights movement existed independently of any action in Washington, and by 1964 it was clear a majority of the country favored civil rights protections. The only solid opposition was in the solid South—The DEMOCRAT solid south, which pretty much voted en bloc against the bill.
As for women’s suffrage—there was not a vote per se, other than for a constitutional amendment, which then had to be ratified by 2/3rds of the states. For it to pass, obviously a lot of state representatives, who are even closer to, and more accountable to, the people than federal representatives had to be in favor of suffrage.
You are correct that Obama care is born of a political system that is a universal failure—precisely a failure becaue it is immoral and unethical to take one person’s labor and redistribute without permmission to someone else.
I respect your argument moral and ethical argument. However, the brain dead American population will never sit still long enough to process it.
However, occasionally the light goes on when it comes to money being taken of their pockets.
Are you telling me that Johnson’s 1965(?) Civil Rights Bill was not voted on by Congress?
And are you telling me that no elected officials voted on the suffrage amendment?