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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cogito who wrote (76594)7/28/2008 4:14:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 543278
 
You know, there is a large movement in this country that wants to stop some pairs of adult citizens from marrying each other.

A large movement that would not approve of government formally recognizing such relationships as marriages, or giving the associated benefits. An insignificant movement that would try to stop them from having some ceremony, living together, saying that they are married etc. "Stop pairs of adult citizens from marrying each other" makes it sound more actually stopping people from doing things, rather than not recognizing or supporting those things.

There are other people who want to breach the separation of Church and State, and have Creationism taught in the public schools as science.

Which would only be an example of what de Tocqueville was arguing to the extent that its imposing restrictions rather than just pushing the idea through the local government. I'd oppose it either way, but the distinction is important.

Then there are those who say that our government should be able to detain any person they want to detain, for any length of time, without having to show cause, without being subject to oversight, and without allowing the detainee to even know the evidence against him.

There are, but not very many of them.
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