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To: tpaine
Our constitutions 'Law of the Land' protects us from such majority rule prohibitions. Learn to live with it.

Who decides what reasonable restrictions are in your utopia if not the majority?

163 posted on 10/25/2006 10:44:50 AM PDT by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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To: SampleMan

Bear in mind this sacred principle, that
though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect,
and to violate would be oppression."--Thomas Jefferson


164 posted on 10/25/2006 11:00:39 AM PDT by PaxMacian (Gen 1:29)
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To: SampleMan
Our constitutions 'Law of the Land' protects us from such majority rule prohibitions. Learn to live with it.

Who decides what reasonable restrictions are --- if not the majority?

We the people have already decided, -- read the BOR's and the 14th for reasonable restrictions on the police powers of State/local/fed governments.

167 posted on 10/25/2006 11:22:49 AM PDT by tpaine
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