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#659: July 21-23, 2003

Knowledge Fight

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Do You Want to Save the Bill of Rights?

Alex will identify a perceived threat and come up with a completely symbolic and meaningless solution to it. He's mad about the patriot e, so he wants states to pass bills that say the constitution is real. Most governing bodies would be able to see that this is a purely symbolic, entirely meaningless act. To pass a bill like this would only serve to give the appearance that folksycalics have real institutional power within the party. This would be giving the fringed right wing the appearance of a victory with nothing actually achieved and nothing gained for the politicians themselves. It would in effect be the government ceding power to the fringe, which is unlikely to ever happen in normal times, without a

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