[Enemy Of The State]

"not being allowed to vote is a good law."

Sounds like your IQ isn't exactly soaring to high if you approve of taking someones "God-given" right to vote.

[17th Miss Regt]

If we assert that the right to vote is God-given, then age limits on voting make no sense. You seem to be arguing that prison time should be the only sanction available to society for evil behavior. I will grant you that a felon may be working and paying taxes, but the felon has a history of bad behavior. This falls under the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" rubrics.

[Trickyguy]

Sounds like your IQ's in the basement if you think the right to vote is God-given.

[Tomalak]

Why should people who do not obey the law get a say in making those laws? If you want a say in how society is run, you have an equal obligation to play by the rules of society. It is like joining a club and then not playing by members' rules: you don't then get a voice in how the club works.

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[Congressman Billybob]

The "right to vote" is not "God-given." It is granted by the state in which you live. Reasonable restrictions on the right to vote were known to the Framers of the Constitution, and were allowed for in that document. The Supreme Court has, correctly, upheld that right for the legislatures of each state.

Your assertion is simply incorrect. If you review the records of the Constitutional Convention, or the Supreme Court cases on this subject, you will see that you are incorrect.

Congressman Billybob