Why Lena Dunham shouldn apos t be allowed to vote - LA Times
I would have just come out and said stupid people shouldn't vote, that would be the end of the democrook party. However Mr Goldberg using this Duhnam creature is astute, because she embodies the incredible depth of liberal ignorance.
She can vote for any goddamn reason she wants. It's her constitutional right.
Voting is not a right, but a privilege granted or withheld at the discretion of local and state governments.
It doesn't surprise me you want mindless imbeciles like her voting though.
Voting is certainly a right.
There are also restrictions on gun ownership, although we have the right to keep and bear arms in this country, you boob.
Did you get to vote? You're a mindless imbecile.
No it isn't a right bed wetter. The Bill of Rights has not a single mention of voting.
It does however refer to the right to keep and bear arms which I'm sure you'd love to claim doesn't really exist. Just because there are unconstitutional laws that stand unchallenged doesn't mean there is no RKBA.
I got to vote because I'm not a felon, I'm alive, and I have ID.
Democrooks like you have a problem with that though.
Scholars and courts often note that the Constitution nowhere says, "All individuals have the right to vote." It simply rules out specific limitations on "the right to vote." A right not guaranteed in affirmative terms isn't really a "right" in a fundamental sense, this reading suggests.
But if the Constitution has to say "here is a specific right and we now guarantee that right to every person," there are almost no rights in the Constitution. Linguistically, our Constitution is more in the rights-preserving than in the right-proclaiming business. The First Amendment doesn't say "every person has the right to free speech and free exercise of religion." In the Second, the right to "keep and bear arms" isn't defined, but rather shall not be "abridged." In the Fourth, "[t]he right of the people to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures" isn't defined, but instead "shall not be violated." In the Seventh, "the right of (civil) trial by jury" -- whatever that is -- "shall be preserved." And so on.
In those terms, it ought to mean something that the right to vote is singled out more often than any other. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes a penalty upon states that deny or abridge "the right to vote at any [federal or state] election ... to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, ... except for participation in rebellion, or other crime." The Fifteenth states that "[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote" can't be abridged by race; the Nineteenth says that the same right can't be abridged by sex; the Twenty-Fourth says that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote" in federal elections can't be blocked by a poll tax; and the Twenty-Sixth protects "[t]he right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote."
So if our courts treat the ballot as less than a fundamental right, they aren't reading that in the Constitution, but projecting it onto the Constitution.
Voting Right or Privilege - The Atlantic
