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Quote by: Osborn F Enready I say:
What laws have been passed in the last 154 years that make your life better, and increase your liberty? |
UMM, lets see...
[Article XVII.]
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
(Direct election of Senators rather than appointment by state legislators, gave me greater say in my government, increasing my liberty. Ratified 1913)
Article [XIX].
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
(I'm a woman, so this has very large bearing on my rights and liberties. Ratified 1920)
Amendment XXII
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
(Presidential Term Limit decreases chance of abuse of power by sheer accumulation of power over time. Increases my long-term chances of securing my liberty against tyrany)
Title IX
Allowed me to participate in High School Athletics on an equal footing with my male counterparts and learn what men had for so longed claimed women were unable to learn without competitive chances, how to work as part of a team. Increased my marketability in the world of work and enhanced my life in multiple other ways.
Do you really want me to go on...?
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Quote by: Osborn F Enready Media sways the largest majority of voters, if the Libertarian canidate is given equal time to debate, address and lobby the public as the major parties, this will no longer be a two party country. I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT! |
The Whigs are gone, the Federalists are gone. There have been times in our history when there was a shift in power and a new party came to prominence. If the time is right for Libretarians, it will happen, but I bet there were members of the Progressive party who made the same sort of guarantees and they would have been wrong.