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| Topic | why doesn't america do anything about its gun violence issues? |
| Dash_Harber 02/15/18 1:03:19 AM #50: | Nomadic View posted... Youre right that we certainly brought over certain ideals from England. But all of those laws that we have today are encompassed within the our Constitution. Any law that Congress passes will be invalidated if it steps outside the heartland of the Constitution or is in direct contradiction of it. The Constitution, and the Supreme Courts interpretation of it, is our only protection against an overbearing government. To allow that same government to just widdle away the parts it doesnt like just makes those protections not worth the paper theyre written on. You are speaking in really vague, flowery terms. The reality is that the legal code was not innovative, and inflexible rigid laws completely kill countries. If the constitution was really eternal, how come we've had to create other laws to ban things like slavery or cocaine that were perfectly legal during the time the constitution was written? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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