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To: dinoparty
Yeah, the Founders assumed individuals as groups ("assemble peaceably") would be protected.

There's also something in there about "religion" ~ which is definitionally a "group sort of thing", Armies, Navies, etc.

Even defense contractors were named in the Constitution!

Problem is Sotomayor comes from a very insular community that cuts itself off from the mainstream of American history, tradition and thought. We have rarely had a more narrow-minded and bigoted Justice.

16 posted on 09/17/2009 2:16:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Again, you are confusing “corporations” with “groups”. Certainly groups have a right to speak collectively. This doesn’t necessarily mean that corporations as distinct entities may do so. Its quite simple — gather some employees or shareholders together and speak in the name of the employee/shareholder collective, not in the name of the corporation, and you avoid the problem.


23 posted on 09/17/2009 2:20:53 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: muawiyah

Bigotry driven by fundamentalist collectivist dogma. Might as well have appointed a Taliban mullah to the court.


74 posted on 09/17/2009 2:55:50 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
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To: muawiyah

“Even defense contractors were named in the Constitution!”
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Citation, please.


275 posted on 09/18/2009 3:28:32 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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