The Madisonian Dilemma
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>> there are nonetheless some things majorities must not do to minorities, some areas of life in which the individual must be free of majority rule. <<
I see these areas as enumerated in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.
— Many here do not. Feel free to tell me why not.
>> Why not prohibit a dangerous evil?
If every drinker is a potential alcoholic, every drug-user a future addict, and every gun-owner a potential killer, why not ban them all?
There is no defense against this logic except to challenge the lies that sit at the root of the arguments.
Those are the lies promoted by the prevailing propaganda in support of all Prohibition.
We cannot oppose one and support the other. To do so undermines our efforts because all these movements walk on the same legs.
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Connecting the War on Guns & Drugs [my title]
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This is the logical core of the article above.
- Prohibitional power has never been granted to any level of government, federal/state or local.
Governments are limited to legally reasonable regulatory powers by the basic principles of our constitution.