[Antoninus]

What does that have to do with anything? This is not a socialist armpit (where the masses own the property); it is a free republic (where the property is privately owned).

So you think our Constitution guarantees the fundamental right of a sleaze-merchant to operate a strip club in a town that votes overwhelmingly to prohibit it? If that's your belief, please state it plainly.

[steve-b]

The right to private property is the rock on which a free republic is founded. If you disapprove of the right to private property, please say so plainly.

[steve-b]

So you think our Constitution guarantees the fundamental right of a sleaze-merchant to operate a strip club in a town that votes overwhelmingly to prohibit it?

Obviously, the Constitution does not guarantee a "right" to maintain a business when your potential customers decline to patronize it, any more than it guarantees an audience to your free speech when your potential listeners decline to pay any attention to it.

[supercat]

So you think our Constitution guarantees the fundamental right of a sleaze-merchant to operate a strip club in a town that votes overwhelmingly to prohibit it? If that's your belief, please state it plainly.

A town has a right to forbid someone from operating a strip club in such fashion as to create a public nuisance. A town IMHO should not have the authority to use overly intrusive means to ensure that nobody could possibly be operating a strip club anywhere.