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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1315139" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>"Local community interests" would involve responsibility for the water or sewage system, funding and maintaining city parks, and creating local ordinances in regards to traffic control, licensing dogs, and operating police and fire services etc.</p><p></p><p>Fundamental human rights such as the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and due process of law should <strong>not</strong> be subject to the whims of majority rule on a community level. Were this the case, you would probably still see areas of the Deep South where slavery or Jim Crow laws were still legal...you would see fundamentalist religious communities that would sentence homosexuals to death for "sodomy"....or others that would prohibit the free practice of any faith other than the one "allowed" by the majority. It is for these reasons that our rights are enumerated by a Constitution rather than voted on by a City Council.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1315139, member: 14668"] "Local community interests" would involve responsibility for the water or sewage system, funding and maintaining city parks, and creating local ordinances in regards to traffic control, licensing dogs, and operating police and fire services etc. Fundamental human rights such as the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and due process of law should [B]not[/B] be subject to the whims of majority rule on a community level. Were this the case, you would probably still see areas of the Deep South where slavery or Jim Crow laws were still legal...you would see fundamentalist religious communities that would sentence homosexuals to death for "sodomy"....or others that would prohibit the free practice of any faith other than the one "allowed" by the majority. It is for these reasons that our rights are enumerated by a Constitution rather than voted on by a City Council. [/QUOTE]
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