Re: Vote NO on Prop Eight

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From: Billzz
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"A Browne" <Rpalino@mailandnews..com> wrote in message 
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>> Let's not forget forget this measure
>> would not have been necessary if the court had respected
>> the will of the people in the first place.
>
> The "will of the people" is not the final sole arbiter.
>
> Civil Rights are not up for popular vote.
>
> If the majority of "the people" decided to re-institute slavery, it would 
> not be valid, because the consitution doesn't allow it.

I am mostly apolitical, and don't enter into politicized argument, and I am 
not a constitutional scholar (although there were a few lawyers teaching the 
subject at the US National War College, when I was a student, and I wondered 
why this was so important, so now I am beginning to find out.)

Anyway, if the majority of the people decide anything, and get the 
constitution amended, then, whatever it is, is.

Probably the majority of the people will not be re-enacting slavery, nor 
will they be taking California Proposition Eight nationwide, but there is no 
bar against that happening.  Anything is subject to the popular vote.

Good luck to all people of good will, and God protect the next President of 
the United States.  He is going to need all the good luck and good will that 
he can get.

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