Voting
McCain will give all the money to the rich! Obama will tax you to death!
Well, at least the constitution gives me the right to decide. Constitutionaly, and all.
Sorry, just got 3rd out of 17 in the weekly poker tourney and am a bit on tilt.
Wrong.
You have no right to vote for el presidente...
You have no right to vote for the president of this here U S of A. The more savvy of you will no doubt point out that I'm d-r-u-n=k. Fair entougn. The rest will just read in blissful... bliss. Forget the electoral college for a minuet and bear with e. UR SMRT, if you figured out that you can't vote for the pres and can only get soemone to voet for you. BUT YOURE STILL WRONG.
After some research, it would appear that no one in the country has a constitutional right to vote for the members of the electoral college. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments (circa 1865-1880 passing) are the first real stab at providing equal rights for citizens, and by citizens I mean men. The 13th outlawed slavery. The 14th defined citizenship and said that being a slave in the past did not disqualify you from citizenship. The 15th said that the right to vote could not be assigned in a discriminatory manner.
You have no constitutional right to vote.
The decision of who gets to vote for president/VP is left up to the states. Specifically its legistlatures. If tomorrow the state legislature said it didn't want the popu;lace voting, it's well within their right.
Since 1776, states have creatively found ways to keep certain people from not voting. Literacy, land ownership or "the grandfather clause" i.e. if your grandfather voted, you could (to allow illiterate white people to vote), were all used to keep blacks from voting even after the 15th amendment passed.
These are men, mind you. Women weren't included under the anti-discrimination umbrella until the 19th amendment in 1920.
What's interesting though is that states were finding ways to discriminate all the way up to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which sought to end the practices altogether. Ironically, that still has to be ratified every so many years. The last extension was in 2006, for 25 more years.
I propose we change it.
To what, I don't know.
To steal a couple of Heinlein ideas, we could say you have to serve in the military to vote. Or you have to pay the cost of an ounce of gold (or pick the benchmark) to take a civics test-- if you pass the test, you get your money back and vote-- fail, and the horn goes off in the local library, you get exposed as a dupe and you fail and lose your right to cast the ballot.
I've been overserved on myh way to 3rd out of 17 in my weekly poker tourney. Happy Friday.
There's your history lesson for today.
Well, at least the constitution gives me the right to decide. Constitutionaly, and all.
Sorry, just got 3rd out of 17 in the weekly poker tourney and am a bit on tilt.
Wrong.
You have no right to vote for el presidente...
You have no right to vote for the president of this here U S of A. The more savvy of you will no doubt point out that I'm d-r-u-n=k. Fair entougn. The rest will just read in blissful... bliss. Forget the electoral college for a minuet and bear with e. UR SMRT, if you figured out that you can't vote for the pres and can only get soemone to voet for you. BUT YOURE STILL WRONG.
After some research, it would appear that no one in the country has a constitutional right to vote for the members of the electoral college. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments (circa 1865-1880 passing) are the first real stab at providing equal rights for citizens, and by citizens I mean men. The 13th outlawed slavery. The 14th defined citizenship and said that being a slave in the past did not disqualify you from citizenship. The 15th said that the right to vote could not be assigned in a discriminatory manner.
You have no constitutional right to vote.
The decision of who gets to vote for president/VP is left up to the states. Specifically its legistlatures. If tomorrow the state legislature said it didn't want the popu;lace voting, it's well within their right.
Since 1776, states have creatively found ways to keep certain people from not voting. Literacy, land ownership or "the grandfather clause" i.e. if your grandfather voted, you could (to allow illiterate white people to vote), were all used to keep blacks from voting even after the 15th amendment passed.
These are men, mind you. Women weren't included under the anti-discrimination umbrella until the 19th amendment in 1920.
What's interesting though is that states were finding ways to discriminate all the way up to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which sought to end the practices altogether. Ironically, that still has to be ratified every so many years. The last extension was in 2006, for 25 more years.
I propose we change it.
To what, I don't know.
To steal a couple of Heinlein ideas, we could say you have to serve in the military to vote. Or you have to pay the cost of an ounce of gold (or pick the benchmark) to take a civics test-- if you pass the test, you get your money back and vote-- fail, and the horn goes off in the local library, you get exposed as a dupe and you fail and lose your right to cast the ballot.
I've been overserved on myh way to 3rd out of 17 in my weekly poker tourney. Happy Friday.
There's your history lesson for today.
posted by Max Boom | 10:10 AM
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