Daily Archives: 3 November 2008

Tomorrow’s the day

In case you missed it, tomorrow is election day. Go vote. Then, come back to Worldview for an entire day of liveblogging. -=DLH=-

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A quick thought on “the right to vote”

I have heard several times now in the past twenty-four hours the contention that the Constitution does not contain a right to vote. It appears, based on the words from his own mouth, that this meme started with Neal Boortz, who I expect to make such a general and incendiary comment in order to rattle people.

The question of the right to vote is one of the several questions of Constitutional politics that cannot be reduced past its inherent level of complexity. Boortz statement insinuates that there is no right to vote at all, a claim that violates the requirements of both logical thinking and irreducible complexity. […] Continue reading

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