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Old 11-05-2008, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson View Post
I'll be honest and say that I don't know much about politics, so I'm just asking here - but hasn't the constitution had ammendments to it? Presumably that means that when an old law/right is out-dated, it is brought up to the modern day - right? How long can you stand behind something which is already 200 years old, and thus written in a very different time.
Yep, 27 of them. Mostly useless stuff like freedom of speech or the right to trial by jury. Oh, and the right to bear arms. Yes, it's not, I repeat, NOT in the constitution.

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