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To: F16Fighter
And still you've managed to grace us with your presence and useless feedback... Thanks for sharing

It's hard to dignify a topic like this with a serious reply considering common sense tells us the Constitution and Bill of Rights protect us from exactly this kind of draconian law. Years ago the majority didn't want blacks and women to vote...that didn't make it right, did it...

130 posted on 09/30/2004 4:44:59 PM PDT by jambooti
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To: jambooti
It's hard to dignify a topic like this with a serious reply considering common sense tells us the Constitution and Bill of Rights protect us from exactly this kind of draconian law.

Ain't it amazing that it took us 180 years to figure out such laws were "draconian"?
213 posted on 09/30/2004 8:57:49 PM PDT by Antoninus (Abortion; Euthanasia; Fetal Stem Cell Research; Human Cloning; Homo Marriage - NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES)
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To: jambooti
"Years ago the majority didn't want blacks and women to vote..."

Didn't a simple reading of the Constitution and Bill of Rights preclude women and blacks from voting?

I don't understand. Are you asking me to use "common sense" when reading the Constitution and Bill of Rights when it comes to pornography and the first amendment, but I should have ignored the plain reading of the Constitution and Bill of Rights when it came to the right to vote?

That seems to me to be saying that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are whatever we think they are. That's pretty dangerous, isn't it?

256 posted on 10/01/2004 7:13:53 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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