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Why the Bill of Rights Would Never Pass Today
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"Having watched closely the manner in which questions of liberty and power are batted around in the first part of the 21st century — most recently during the disgraceful contretemps that Indiana’s rather tame Religious Freedom Restoration Act provoked across the land — I have come to wonder of late whether the Bill of Rights could be ratified today." ...
"To run down the list is to see the modern objections fall neatly into place. As it is so often, the Second Amendment would be cast as a recipe for 'Wild West' anarchy, an open invitation to sedition for those white, mountain-dwelling racists of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s nightmares, and an overture to the execution of children. ..." ... |
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"Americans now live in a country in which it is presumed that the national authorities can do whatever they wish unless they are checked."
Exactly so, and Pete DeFazio confirmed that fact at a "town meeting" in Oregon, when he responded to a question about constitutional authority, "Yeah, we can pretty much do whatever we want." |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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