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Old 02-24-2004, 03:02 PM  
DrThorsen
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Quote:
Originally posted by genomega

The people are the government and they are aginst it.

The people were also for slavery before the civil war, but that didn't make it right, nor legal.

The US is a democratic republic. Our elected officials make the laws. What citizens think is merely public opinion and irrelevant at the federal level.
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