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To: miliantnutcase
Indian reservations like Red Lake are sovereign states.

If they're sovereign states, how come the people living there get to vote? If they people living there are citizens, how come they don't have to obey the same laws the rest of us do?

30 posted on 03/25/2005 12:47:11 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: JoeFromSidney
If they people living there are citizens, how come they don't have to obey the same laws the rest of us do?

For the most part they do, when it comes to Federal law that is. The reservations are in states, but technically not part of the state. Thus state laws do not apply. (IE, law against gambling).

32 posted on 03/25/2005 2:49:51 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: JoeFromSidney

needed my /sarcasm tag on. sorry ;)


33 posted on 03/25/2005 8:43:57 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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