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To: wagglebee
""Take Ron Paul for instance, he believes that each state should be free to legalize abortion
but, but, but, wouldn't that mean that each state would be free to outlaw abortion???? 10th amendment... read it... understand it... or go to a totaltarian country...
35 posted on 01/08/2012 1:20:52 PM PST by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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but, but, but, wouldn't that mean that each state would be free to outlaw abortion???? 10th amendment... read it... understand it... or go to a totaltarian [sic] country...

NOWHERE in the Constitution does it suggest that states have the power to legislate away unalienable rights, in fact the Fourteenth Amendment makes it perfectly clear that it would be unconstitutional to allow states to legalize abortion.

How EXACTLY would abolishing abortion make the United States a "totalitarian" country?

36 posted on 01/08/2012 1:28:48 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: joe fonebone
10th amendment... read it... understand it... or go to a totaltarian country...

The Tenth Amendment speaks of powers. Legitimate powers, of the national government, the state governments, and of the people.

None of the three have any legitimate power or jurisdiction to alienate the God-given, unalienable rights of any person. They never have and they never will.

The views you espouse, which demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the Tenth Amendment, and ignorance concerning natural rights, have been propagated widely by Ron Paul. It's a deadly disease in the body politic, quite frankly.

This republic was premised on an understanding of the self-evident truths concerning the natural equal rights of the people.

You probably don't realize it, but by following Ron Paul on these things, you're helping to destroy those foundations.

The irony of your post is that the mark of totalitarianism is that they have no respect whatsoever for the God-given, unalienable equal rights of the individual.

42 posted on 01/08/2012 4:18:07 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Romney is Obama.)
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To: joe fonebone; wagglebee

So a country which forbids murder in every state is a totalitarian country, since it would not allow any state to legally murder people?


44 posted on 01/08/2012 4:32:11 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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