Into the Night
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Trump said so.
The Supreme Court faces an existential crisis of legitimacy
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Into the Night
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Psychoquackery. You made up Sybil. If you want to make him crazy, that's YOUR fantasy.
No one was trying to hang Pence. Hallucination.
No one was trying to murder all of Congress. Hallucination.
You deny and discard the Constitution of the United States.
Democrats ARE trying to take guns away. That is unconstitutional.
how is that baby not alive ?
its constantly growing, heart is pumping blood, it responds to stimuli.
nothing in the Constitution about it being wrong to murder people but we basically adopted English Common Law which does address that among many other things. Its a pretty good template as it reflects behavious that are universally seen as wrong.
you see to prize convenience over right and wrong. pretty scary that.
Into the Night
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It doesn't. States do though. They have authority to pass laws concerning homicide.
So?
It is a human being.
RQAA. This has already been explained to you.
sounds like an idiot then. why spend the money ?
Exactly. Buy better running shoes instead.
if you plan on trying that, better serpentine...
and hope the other guy is a terrible shot.
...and buy body armor for one's ass and back.
They were all idiots out that night except for the KPD.
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Only partially. They used the "other rights" in the 9th Amendment and said if we have other rights not listed in the first 8 one is the right to privacy. They supported that by citing other rights designed to protect our privacy: 1st-freedom of assembly, 3rd-quartering of troops, 4th-search and seizure, 5th-right to remain silent. They used the 14th Amendment due process clause to make these rights applicable to the states.
So, they used the 1st amendment freedom of assembly clause but not the free speech clause. Free speech does not really apply to privacy.
The already control your body--age of alcohol consent, hours of alcohol purchase, what drugs you can put into your body, age of consent for sexual activity, vaccinations required for school and military duty...
A lot of those things are religious based morality laws. Limits for public safety are fine such as "No shooting guns in town". Why should anyone give a damn if I buy beer on a Sunday morning unless it's a religious issue?
What do the rights of the unborn include? Do they have the right to make contracts, inherit....?
They are still laws even if they were (originally) religious based. Many laws are religious based morality laws--murder, rape, assault, theft....
At one time adultery and sodomy were illegal.
Exactly, because they were religious-based. Let's keep moving in that direction.
Murder and rape or any other victim crimes secular.
Laws on alcohol consumption (including blue laws) were never found unconstitutional because of 1st amendment freedom of religion. They were eventually repealed by the legislature or struck down for violating the right to privacy (sodomy).
Do you think drug laws are religiously based? A law can be based on the religious beliefs of some (abortion) but it is still a secular law if it contains no religious language.
Yes. What right does a government have to tell a person they can't be a heroin addict?
If we all have unalienable rights, then where does it become the government's right to dictate to someone they can't smoke pot?
The 10th Amendment gives the states "police powers" to protect "health, safety, welfare, and morals." Federal laws against drugs come from the interstate commerce clause.
That "inalienable rights" thing was always a little vague to me--like "natural law."
If a fetus is a person, try and get it a social security card . register it for the draft. Try and good food stamps. They will show you that is not a person.
I understand they are laws. What I don't understand is what gives a democratic government oppressive authoritarian powers...except that We, the People gave it to them and won't take them back.
The government has the powers given it in the Constitution. Technically, in a democracy the government has any powers a majority of the people choose to give it. That is why many make the point that we are not a democracy because a majority cannot override the rights of the minority in our system.