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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Wed May 22, 2013, 03:04 PM May 2013

Thom Hartmann: A "right to vote" constitutional amendment is here...

Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) joins Thom Hartmann. Despite what you may have been taught in your middle and high school civics classes - there is no affirmative right to vote laid out in the Constitution.

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Thom Hartmann: A "right to vote" constitutional amendment is here... (Original Post) thomhartmann May 2013 OP

I would think that the right to vote... jjewell May 2013 #1

jjewell

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1. I would think that the right to vote...

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 03:09 PM

May 2013

would be covered by the First Amendment. How can the expression of a citizen's will, via the ballot box, NOT be considered speech?

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