Back in 1787, as our Founding Fathers were building the constitutional system that has somehow lasted 237 years and counting, Alexander Hamilton made the following pessimistic observation about the wisdom of unfettered democracy: “ The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right .”

That has not been the popular view for the almost two and a half centuries of our democratic republic, but based on the demonstrated judgment of Ohio’s voters over the last few years, I’m thinking that Hamilton might not have been all wrong.

Since 2021, Ohio’s democratic process has led to three of the most short-sighted, self-destructive electoral decisions in our history.

In 2023 voters amended the state constitution to affirm the right of women to abort their babies in the wom

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