To: MrLeRoy
"Wrong---it requires all "free persons" to be counted."
No, you're looking at an obsolete version. See Amendment 14:
"Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed."
Since the unborn have never been counted to apportion Representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, the unborn must not be persons.
To: Mark Bahner
Since the unborn have never been counted to apportion Representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, the unborn must not be persons. Not for Constitutional purposes, no. But that does not negate my statement that "abortion violates rights."
113 posted on
01/16/2003 10:10:11 AM PST by
MrLeRoy
(I'd pay a dollar to see that)
To: Mark Bahner
"Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed." So, according to your opinion, Indians, at least those who are not taxed, are not "persons?"
122 posted on
01/16/2003 10:35:38 AM PST by
A2J
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