A large group of citizens of our country (in the thousands) were not allowed to elect senators,congressmen or the president for many years. However, all through those years they had to pay taxes in full. Eventually, they took this injustice to court, claiming that the ¨raison d'être¨of our revolution, which resulted in the birth of our nation, was the precept Taxation only w/Representation. The court ruled that this only applied to PREconstitutional times and therefore was invalid and unconstitutional. Bizarre,what?
I guess life in these United States is always going to surprise you!
(BTW,not one of these thousands of unrepresented but taxed citizens of the U.S. was a felon deprived of his rights as a punitive measure)
2007-09-08
14:55:15
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