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To: AndrewC

Among other things, I would take issue with this, “The right to vote. A citizen has a right to vote period”. In the strict sense of the word right, based on natural law, voting is about as far from a right as lets say Abortion.

You see stuck on something that did not appear in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights, but only later, long after, someone decided that legislated rights needed to be added to the ones deemed originally important by the founding fathers. Voting was not one of them and that is sufficient for me.

Frankly, all of the amendments after number 10 have done nothing but muddy the water and given the Supreme court added ammunition against the people. JMHO expressed long before this.


97 posted on 12/27/2008 12:43:36 PM PST by wita
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To: wita
In the strict sense of the word right, based on natural law, voting is about as far from a right as lets say Abortion.

What natural law? Voting is a right in a republic or a democratic government that uses the word, people as in "We the people...". I repeat a citizen has a right to vote. Read the constitution ...

Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states,

That process is known as voting.

And the fifteenth amendment

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--

Voting is a right of citizens.

98 posted on 12/27/2008 2:41:56 PM PST by AndrewC
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