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To: Repeal The 17th; Electric Graffiti; marktwain
The Constitution does not confer rights. The rights are pre-existing. Thus, it is not a Constitutional right to vote. The government is established by the Constitution, which specifically restricts it to enumerated powers. Government is further particularly restricted by the "Bill of Rights" to "Prevent misconstruction or abuse of it's powers" - see the preamble.

I'm not sure if this is what freedomjusticeruleoflaw means by "there is no constitutional right to vote". The 19th amendment restricts "the United States or any state" and empowers Congess to enforce this through legislation. Did you just mean this as a prompt to examine the meaning of "United States"?

43 posted on 11/04/2018 11:15:23 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: no-s

The framers didn’t put a ‘right to vote’ under the bill of rights because they were forming a constitutional republic not a democracy. Just look at what’s happened to our liberties as the voting franchise keeps expanding. That’s right...


44 posted on 11/05/2018 12:48:23 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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