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To: Dan Evans

How do you nullify a right??


44 posted on 08/06/2004 11:14:31 PM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: GeronL

How do you nullify a right??

One way is to purchase it with tax breaks. For example, non-profit organizations are not allowed their free speech rights. Same way with people who live in federally subsidized apartments.

Rights are also bartered away. Giving corporations and HMO's certain kinds of legal immunity in exchange for their first amendment rights.

Another way is to claim that the right of the federal government to regulate commerce somehow trumps an individual's right to free speech.

47 posted on 08/07/2004 5:13:41 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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