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To: sweetliberty
"Can anybody cite a situation in which the federal government ever returned a power to the people once they had gotten it away?"

Of course. Habeus Corpus was suspended during the War of Northern Agression, yet we have it back today.

The right to purchase goods on the free market was curtailed during WW2 (rationing), yet we have that right back now.

The right to own gold was taken from the people by FDR during the Depression, yet we have that right back now.

More recently during this War on Terrorism, the right to fly was curtailed. Again, we already have that right back.

Sheesh, those are just four major rights that I've named off the top of my head. If you don't know about those and other such examples, then you just haven't been paying attention to history.

42 posted on 10/26/2001 2:18:38 PM PDT by Southack
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