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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5651)	8/19/2001 6:33:15 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

But did "inalienable right to life,...." mean that the Framers were against the death penalty? If so, why didn't they say so? Why DIDN'T they put that into the Constitution. Many of the same people were involved in both efforts. And NOT ONE American Colony outlawed the death penalty. Or did so later during the period when they were each an independent nation. States outlawing the death penalty is a recent phenomenon. And the origin of that part of the discussion was the death penalty. I believe your argument falls. That might have missed it; they weren't infallible. <s> Seriously though. The Framers/Colonies were able to reconcile it as did the Courts. So perhaps I'm still lagging. But the Framers and the colonies may have assumed that equal protection and equal application of the law [and penalty] were a given. Justice O'Connor recently suggested that wasn't true and it appeared that innocents were likely being executed. So it may turn out that the death penalty could be ruled un-constitutional based on the inability to guarantee equal application under the law. ....The more wealthy a nation, the better everyone in it lives. The more and better food and housing they have, the more opportunity for education,... Depends on what the wealth distribution is, if the wealth is concentrated at the top half and the bottom half is living in poverty, it doesn't follow that everyone is living better. If the US has double the poverty rate of Europe [which is pretty close] but the per capita GDP is higher in the US than Europe do you conclude that everyone is living better in the US than the major countries in Europe? Your turn for the left. I don't have good examples immediately at hand, but I do believe that with a little research I could match you rabidity for rabidity. If you include SI posters, I'll concede. But I'll compare Daschle over Trent Lott any day of the week. SI posters aren't very relevent to the point, IMO, it's the elected officials that count. jttmab jttmab