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To: Law
"Legal", of course, being the operative term (especially in light of North's goal of claiming a monopoly on the franchise). Eventually, it appears that North would ensure that only the select would have the franchise.

Or did he not mean what he said?

121 posted on 11/17/2003 3:33:22 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: Chancellor Palpatine; ckca; Dr. Eckleburg
Eventually, it appears that North would ensure that only the select would have the franchise. Or did he not mean what he said?

Today is no different: "Only the select" have the franchise. If you're 17 years, 364 days old or less, you can't vote, but if you're one day older, you can. Unless you're a felon or a foreigner or dead (take that back: felons, foreigners and dead people do vote in many places in the US). At any rate, the main point is that every government limits the vote to "the select"; it is hardly the terrible calamity you suggest.

No doubt what you meant to say is that you don't like North's version of the select. Well, I'm sure many reconstructionists don't agree with his selection either. And many nonreconstructionists Christians don't agree either. The religious right is hardly monolithic...all this scaremongering is much ado about nothing to worry about. At least not in our lifetimes.

If you're concerned that much about the distant future, maybe you should spend less time posting on Free Republic and more time having children. Teach them your viewpoint and tell to them to do the same with their children. In a few generations there could be thousands of Chancellor Palpatines to outvote those scary Reconstructionist homeschoolers.

139 posted on 11/17/2003 4:39:25 PM PST by Law
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