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To: ari-freedom

Change the law in your state. If you can’t do that, it means the majority doesn’t agree with you.

What Fred is saying (I think, I don’t know the guy, just going by what I’ve read and heard) is that we should go back to this dual concept:

1) legislatures make law, not judges
2) state legislatures make most law, not the US congress

It’s amazing that here on a conservative website, populated by people who I agree with most of the time, I have to spend my time explaining what is certainly the most fundamental bedrock concept of American freedom. I feel like I’m explaining basics to the readers of Salon or DU.

The people here should KNOW this stuff. Like the back of their hands.


53 posted on 11/08/2007 3:14:57 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: samtheman

“It’s amazing that here on a conservative website, populated by people who I agree with most of the time, I have to spend my time explaining what is certainly the most fundamental bedrock concept of American freedom.”

Can California pass a law saying conservative speech is illegal and if you say that, for example, abortion should be illegal you can be arrested? In your rather simplistic view of federalism it can..


240 posted on 11/08/2007 10:28:52 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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