Free at last. Free at long last. Democracy has finally come to the Commonwealth. I'm hoping that Gilmore simply misspoke when he said democracy and really meant liberty has finally come to the Commonwealth. Democracy and liberty are not the same.
Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
For the Republicans to provide the kind of moral leadership to answer those questions in ways Virginia's most distinguished statesmen would have answered them will be quite a challenge. There is another issue far more challenging. It's probably not going to take rocket science for them to agree that Congress has trashed the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. That therefore no right, of any denomination, can be canceled, abridged, restrained or modified by the Congress, by the Senate, or House of Representatives, acting in any capacity, by the President, or any department or officer of the United States, except in those instances where power is given by the Constitution for those purposes. They said the authority granted to the federal government was derived from the people.