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To: BillKneer
The "will of the people" can certainly be unconstitutional.

If it were the people's will to take your guns, for example.

19 posted on 03/19/2011 7:09:52 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I'd crawl over broken glass for her. Alea iacta est.)
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To: Jim Noble
"The "will of the people" can certainly be unconstitutional."

I was thinking the exact same thing when I read that... even though that's a misleading title. This is an argument about procedure, not the law itself... not saying the tards won't use any means necessary to fulfill the underlying agenda, of course.

The group of guys who founded this country knew of the dangers of "majority rules" mentality. That is why we not only have a representative democracy, but also a constitution and bill of rights to protect the individual FROM that representative democracy. It's a pretty clever and effective layout, but all too often ignored by the courts.

34 posted on 03/19/2011 8:13:55 AM PDT by FunkyZero ("It's not about duck hunting !")
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To: Jim Noble

You have a good point. But in this case the people are right and they did there duty as Americas and elected people to help serve them and the left does not like it ans will not give up without a fight.


45 posted on 03/20/2011 1:46:16 PM PDT by BillKneer
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