| The Toecutter |
11-19-2006 03:00 AM |
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I know the Libertarians have been wanting to legalize pot, but with this I assume this has expanded to crack and acid?
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It never expanded to these. They merely recognized immediately that the power to prevent individuals from harming themselves through threat of legal sanction or even force is not a power granted to the government within the U.S. constitution.
The intent of our founders was very clear.
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." ~Thomas Jefferson speaking to Francis Gilmer, 1816 |