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For the record, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., perhaps our greatest national jurisprude as well as Supreme Court justice (As a young man who had just survived serious wounds in the Civil War, he wrote the classic study of the Common Law -- the British legal 'bible') inveighed against the "second punishment," i.e. once one had served his sentence for a crime he/she should start with a clean slate and no additional penalties. I believe this was included in his classic essay, "The Path of the Law." There are literally hundreds of bars to this and that faced by felons -- particularly in the domain of employment -- in addition to voting. And we now have -- is it 11 or 13 million felons so barred?
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once a person has paid their debt to society they should be able to vote again.how can we say these people can go on with their lives and not be persicuted for things in the past if we keep on hounding them for things in the past? Michael McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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