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To: DirtyHarryY2K

The states have jurisdiction, but only within the limits of the Bill of Rights. Wich, as we have seen, paints with a very broad brush the scope of our individual rights.

So long as the expression of those rights does not conflict with the rights of others (and no, the "right not to be offended" doesn't count), the states are on shaky ground when they try to legislate one particular morality.


255 posted on 10/25/2005 12:34:27 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

>sigh<

That should, of course, be "Which, as we have seen,"


256 posted on 10/25/2005 12:35:50 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball
Bill of Rights - very broad brush - So long as the expression of those rights does not conflict with the rights of others

Nobody has a right to engage in sexual perversion (HOMOSEXUAL SODOMY), every citizen is forbidden by state law to do so. There's no special group that has the right to do so and another group forbidded, we're all equally forbidden by "due prosses"- state legislation!

257 posted on 10/25/2005 12:46:24 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (http://soapboxharry.blogspot.com/)
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