How can they amend a recently made law if the majority of the voters passed it for a reason?

Itstartshere27: How can they amend a recently made law if the majority of the voters passed it for a reason?
I read that in Connecticut voters passed a law decriminalizing the use of marijuana, but they might amend law making it a criminal offense. Voters passed the law by a 65-35% margin and local officials are tyring to repeal it for some reason. I just would like to know how our government is supposed to work if they can just repeal any law that the voters pass?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Logic316
Because the U.S. is a constitutional republic, not a direct democracy. Our elected representatives are the ones who are responsible for making the laws. Otherwise, segregation might still be legal in many states, because the vast majority of voters did want it until the feds came in and overrode them. I’m not saying I’m against decriminalization of drugs, just that what’s popular isn’t always what’s right and allowing the voters to have absolute say in the law would result in mob rule. If you look at the writings of the Founding Fathers (in particular, the Federalist Papers) they considered democracy to be the worst form of government.

Answer by HodgPodg
It is the elitist attitude that modern politicians have. When the original laws, constitution, state charters, etc. were written they never expected that problem to occur. We need to reduce the size and power of our governments, or we will lose our freedoms.

EDIT:
Logic 316, Jim Crow laws did not have the full popular vote. Those states had banned the black people from voting which the feds said must be allowed. The true popular vote would have included the black vote and they would have been repealed by the states, but the states were denying constitutional rights from a large part of the population.

Answer by Paladin
In Arizona, we amended our constitution to keep the Legislature from doing this sort of thing