Sunday, March 4, 2012

'Right to Vote' in Kennewick, Wa. Republican Caucus


"I think it's illegal," Swenson shouted to a gathered crowd, many of whom were filming him with cell phone cameras'.

"I think it's unconstitutional," he said. "Our right to vote is the most fundamental right in the Constitution'.
From : http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/03/03/1849623/politics-hundreds-turned-away.html

While you cannot be denied the 'right to vote', the Constitution never explicitly ENSURES the 'right to vote'.
See : http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#vote
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/A_Right_to_Vote.html

'This may be a conservative reading of the Constitution, but it is black-letter law. True, the Constitution contains specific, hard-won language in the 15th and 19th Amendments that forbids discrimination in voting on the basis of race or sex. But these prohibitions don't establish a universal right to vote. Thus, Congress cannot selectively disenfranchise women in the District of Columbia but can, and does, render all of its residents voiceless in Congress by denying them representation in the House and Senate. The Florida legislature may not (theoretically, anyway) dismiss only the votes of African Americans; but as the Supreme Court kindly reminded us in Bush v. Gore, it can dismiss everyone's votes'.

Is it nit-picking? Yeah. (GRINS!) But consider this. The Founding Fathers as they wrote the Constitution were white, of property and over 21 years of age.

Women did not vote.
Slaves did not vote.
American Indians did not vote.

In fact if you were not white, over 21 and owned property, you did not vote.

Don't abuse the Constitution. Understand it's purpose at the time and it's use as the foundation for a civil society and functioning government today.

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