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To: neverdem
Who's going to jail for denying DC citizens this right for thirty years?

But that said, no right is absolute. All rights have limitations and come with responsibilities. Freedom of speech does not include the right to falsely cry "fire" in a crowded theater. Freedom of worship does not include the right to polygamy or human sacrifice. There is always tension between individual liberty and "the public good." A primary purpose of government in a democracy is to seek the best balance between the two. The founders believed this as strongly as they believed in protecting individual liberty itself.

It doesn't include polygamy unless your Muslim.

405 posted on 03/21/2007 11:48:30 PM PDT by Razz Barry (,i)
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To: Razz Barry
Who's going to jail for denying DC citizens this right for thirty years?

We shall see. Denying citizens their Constitutional rights is crime, IIRC. But I'm not holding my breath that some old ex mayor or ex councilman, is going to be hauled off to the hoosegow, although they by rights should be keel hauled.

581 posted on 03/23/2007 12:53:19 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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