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To: tpaine

You have a problem with legislating morality?

Perhaps we should legislate immorality?

The 'majority rule' thing is incomprehensible.

Alan is a republican, in the truest sense of the word.


93 posted on 05/17/2004 8:15:06 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
You have a problem with legislating morality?

Yes. I don't find that power enumerated in our state or US Constitutions.

Perhaps we should legislate immorality?

I favor legislating only Constitutional law, and as little of that as we can.

The 'majority rule' thing is incomprehensible.

Indeed it is. That's why I hate to see Keyes thump on his "right of the people!" bit.. He claims there is:
"the right of the people to decide in the law what is right, the right of their representatives to decide in the law what is right!"
-- Which to my mind is a thinly disguised call for majority rule, -- regardless of our constitutional safeguards.

Alan is a republican, in the truest sense of the word.

I see a bit to much of the rabblerousing fundamentalist in him for that. Like many overzealous men he thinks his vision of what is 'morally right' should be law.

108 posted on 05/17/2004 8:44:31 PM PDT by tpaine (In their arrogance, a few infinitely shrewd imbeciles attempt to lay down the 'law' for all of us.)
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