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Helio said:
How did the founders intend our nation to empower the minority?
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By recognizing their right to free speech (political or otherwise), their right to petition for redress of government, their right to free press, their right to gather, their right to be secure from unjust search and seizure, their right to due process, etc.
Now obviously, blacks were not free at this time, nor were women considered equals, but both issues were "common" for the times, and reversed using the strength of the objective logic behind the bill of rights.
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Helio said:
Fundamentalists who protest over Iraq death funerals are in a minority so how does the government empower them?
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They have a right to free speech, but as someone else noted in another thread, not a right to a "captive audience". They have the same rights as any other American, and the fact that you have seen them, shows how much the minority is empowered.