Word: inalienableã
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...together under one particular anti-war creed.Meanwhile, back on the home front, we could be dealing with the possibility of a heavily conservative Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade could be overturned, and constitutional amendments could be instated to ban gay marriage and alienate any number of “inalienable?? rights. The outpouring of feverishly imaginative and angry literature that would result could put the old Feminists to shame and make our grandparents blush.All wrapped up in absurd attacks on race, socioeconomic status, and religion that we’ve seen in this election is something fundamental...
...petty scheming of politicians like Romney may stand in the way of such enormous progress. If the court’s ruling is postponed and voters are allowed to decide on the proposed amendment, a simple majority may very well refuse to share a right that should be inalienable??a step that will be extremely difficult to correct. While the principle of majority rule is the ideological basis of any democracy, the principle that the rights of the minority should be protected is equally fundamental to both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States...
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