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To: cripplecreek
I’m a high school drop out and even I know that you can’t create a class of citizens without voting rights. It would NEVER pass constitutional muster.

Well, how about 3/5 of a vote? There's precedent, in a way.

6 posted on 09/11/2012 2:17:22 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

There was no such thing as 3/5 of a vote, ever. There was a provision that slave states could only count 3/5 of their inhabitants for purposes of seats in congress. The logic being, you don’t get allocated extra seats for people whom you are holding against their will.


17 posted on 09/11/2012 2:49:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Felons who can’t vote are not another ‘class’ of citizen. They broke a law and lost a right of citizenship as a consequence. Not really that complicated.

Thing is, if I were an illegal what would I be worrying about? Getting my life tossed in the crapper by being deported. Not not being able to vote.

My point is that this checkmates a BIG anti-American, ultra liberal weapon. They use it to keep Mexicans in line. Yet most Hispanics are by nature conservative, Without fear of deportation, they could vote the way they want to.


42 posted on 09/12/2012 2:13:56 PM PDT by SF Geo (arnold-jones, non-voting citizenship)
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