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To: DMaA who wrote (36735)	9/14/2000 9:40:46 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

A very good covering of the ground! You are precisely right, local government is more democratic because it both allows those directly affected to have the most say, but also because it allows national minorities to become majorities in their own jurisdictions, and therefore to create a more congenial climate for themselves. When there is diversity of municipal government, one has several options that are not too distant that may be more or less congenial. Thus, it becomes a key element in retaining balance in our system of government.........

To: DMaA who wrote (36735)	9/14/2000 4:29:23 PM
From: phyxter	Respond to of 769667

<<Hence, a town or individual school district should have wide latitude to implement policies that are favored by majorities of citizens in the community. If you simply can't stomach those policies, and you can't convince your neighbors of their folly, then it's a small matter to move to a different community.>> This is just such an absurd statement that it takes your breath away. Government at all levels has limits. Just because a government is local gives it no special right to violate due process, ban free speech, and impose one religious beliefs on others, etc., than the Federal government. You are no less violated, and you are deserving of the same protections from marauding governments. This is what a judiciary is for - to prevent the rights of individuals from being trampled by unrestrained governments at any level. To say that you can move elsewhere if you don't happen to like the local theocracy makes me doubt that you really understand what the great American experiment is all about.

To: DMaA who wrote (36735)	9/14/2000 4:58:52 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769667

<<If you simply can't stomach those policies, and you can't convince your neighbors of their folly, then it's a small matter to move to a different community.>> How true. I'll use Bloomington/Normal, Illinois as an example. Bloomington has always been wet. Normal for years was dry. The party loving winos migrated to Bloomington and the stiff necked tea totalers flocked to Normal. It was that way for decades. Then Normal found they had sots who were buying in Bloomington and Normal was loosing tax revenue. Now there are as many bars in Normal as Bloomington.