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To: HaveHadEnough
It's a privilege of free men, not a right.

What's the difference?

The number of pages of convuluted legal reasoning in the SCOTUS decisions to take away a right versus the number of pages in a SCOTUS decision taking away a privilege, from what I can see.

27 posted on 01/19/2007 11:37:02 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter - a candidate who doesn't need infomercials to convince you he's a conservative)
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To: dirtboy
The number of pages of convuluted legal reasoning in the SCOTUS decisions to take away a right versus the number of pages in a SCOTUS decision taking away a privilege, from what I can see.

Indeed. It's a lot of mental masturbation. It's a way to separate a people from their constitution by interposing a bureaucratic class that retains the right to interpret the words of the Constitution for the people. Kind of like what organized religion sometimes does between the deity and the people.
47 posted on 01/19/2007 12:44:55 PM PST by HaveHadEnough
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