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To: TSgt
I never cease to be amazed at conservatives who whine about minority rule yet when the majority clearly decides they do not want public smoking they scream tyranny!

Actually I want constitutional government, not mob rule. After all there was a time when a majority of Americans supported slavery but it didn't make it constitutional.
8 posted on 12/13/2011 10:08:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek

Majority rule is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.


9 posted on 12/13/2011 10:09:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek

What is not Constitutional about a group of elected leaders following the will of their constituents and enacting a law against public smoking?

There was a time when one could smoke on a plane too...


13 posted on 12/13/2011 10:15:13 AM PST by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: cripplecreek
After all there was a time when a majority of Americans supported slavery but it didn't make it constitutional.

Actually slavery was constitutional, being protected (Art. 4, Sec. 2) and institutionalized (Art. 1, Sec. 2) in that document. That's why it required an amendment to end it.

27 posted on 12/13/2011 10:41:33 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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