Cobol - Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise

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Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise

William M. Klein

2005-01-06, 8:55 pm

In the Heinlein story it is interesting that it took a "simple majority" (as I
recall) to repeal a law and a super-majority to pass one.

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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
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> On 6-Jan-2005, Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Frank Herbert had a universe where there was a Bureau of Sabotage. Because
> law-making got so efficient they actually created a bureau whose sole function
> was to throw monkey wrenches into the works of governing.

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