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> The legal question will be answered by the courts.

This is not a legal question of interpreting an existing law. The law itself should be rewritten in a way that makes the biggest possible number of people OK with it.

> One of the first principle that I hold is

I dont. Now what? We're back to deciding whose first principles should count. The only way to get a set of generally acceptable first principles is to vote on them. Again, you cant circumvent democracy.



> Again, you cant circumvent democracy.

You can, you should and we do. For example, the US is a republic and not a democracy. People have unalienable rights that cannot be voted on.

Even if 80% of Americans would like to re-institute slavery tomorrow, it would be wrong and illegal.




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