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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 65 MPH?
Message-ID: <9834@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 13:59:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 22 13:59:35 1986
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In article <507@nrcvax.UUCP> jj@nrcvax.UUCP (Jeff Jennings - NRC-Utah) writes:
>>But just because people don't like it doesn't mean the law should
>>be changed.
>
>Gee, I thought that that was what democracy was all about.  Shouldn't
>the laws reflect the will of the majority of the people?

Not at all, the law is also supposed to protect minorities against
"the tyranny of the majority". (this has nothing to do with 55MPH)

I'm against a national 55MPH limit also, but your argument is invalid.
-- 
 Noah, this is God speaking. I'm going to make it rain for forty days
 and forty nights. In California.

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