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- From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
- Subject: My Gov't is Better than Yours (was Re: Finally! We're getting somewhere.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.214439.7527@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <1992Nov5.102744.28493@fasttech.com> <BxFF18.1oA@constant.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:44:39 GMT
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- In article <BxFF18.1oA@constant.demon.co.uk> slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
- >...
- >the final say on our laws belongs to the elected representatives of the
- >people rather than a group of unelected Supreme Court judges. Our system
- >has served us well for 350 years, how is the US system "safer"?
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- It didn't serve *us* too well 220 years ago...but we fixed that.
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- But, to answer your question: our system is safer because the final say
- on your laws belongs to the elected representatives of the people rather
- than a group of unelected Supreme Court judges.
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- Different time-constants, and all that...
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