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To: Quila
Never forget that your constitutionality is another's unconstitutionality.

I believe this is true about some laws, but not about all of them. What if there were a law that stated you could not comment in public about a candidate running for office. Can *anyone* doubt the constitutionality of such a law? Alas, in this era of lost common sense, some probably would think such a law was justifiable.

The only flaw in our form of government is that it requires a morally upstanding people to make it work.

Tuor

122 posted on 05/06/2002 2:22:02 AM PDT by Tuor
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To: Tuor
What if there were a law that stated you could not comment in public about a candidate running for office. Can *anyone* doubt the constitutionality of such a law?

I see your point, but that battle is not to be fought by law enforcement.

Okay, I can make exceptions. But the circumstances would have to be pretty severe and obvious, as in maybe not arresting a black man trying to vote in the Jim Crow days (not sure of the actuality of laws there, just trying to come up with an example). I don't think we're up to that level again yet.

123 posted on 05/06/2002 3:29:46 AM PDT by Quila
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