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To: nickcarraway

Yes, I have, top to bottom, several times. I did say that the British version is different to the US. You seem to think that as it is different to the US, its inferior or simply dosent exist.

BTW, my constitution gives me a constitutional right to vote. Yours dosent.


11 posted on 06/05/2013 1:28:15 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman
I am not trying to be provocative. It's not the content I am having an issue with. But, at the end of the day, there isn't any definitive definition of what is or isn't the Constitution. And the fact that no law Parliament passes is constrained is a big issue. If Parliament voted tomorrow that any political opinion published needs to be vetted by a special minister, for example, there is nothing to say they can't do that.

As a second point, (and I know this will come off as trying to be controversial, but I don't intend it that way) is there anything, other than what the people at Downing Street and Westminster feel, that says they are obligated to let people in Scotland vote or have a say? Anything they have done in that regard is simply their "generosity and magnanimity, no?

12 posted on 06/05/2013 1:37:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: the scotsman
BTW, my constitution gives me a constitutional right to vote. Yours dosent.

Such is our Republican form of government. It is one check against mob rule.

14 posted on 06/05/2013 1:51:10 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: the scotsman
Your constitution grants some a privilege to vote as long as Parliament permits it.

The Constitution does indeed and explicitly recognize that enfranchised voters must exist, in several places. The most basic is a Constitutional requirement that every State must provide a representative form of government. That is not possible without the Franchise.

Beyond that, the US Constitution DOES guarantee a right to vote; it specifically qualifies certain people as adults for the purposes of voting but otherwise does not specifically say who may vote because the matter of determining the qualifications and rules for election are not part of the basic Federal charter; that is a power reserved for the States.

Brush up on your US Constitutional Law if you intend to comment on it.

16 posted on 06/05/2013 2:43:18 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Harvard and bigotry, now and forever, one and inseparable.)
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