The Court of Session in Edinburgh reckons the two should go together, having ruled that denying Her Majesty's guests of the right to vote in Holyrood elections contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights.
It's on occasions like this I worry about this conservative streak in me that seems to being growing by the day.
It shows itself when, for example, the question forms in my mind, "Since when was it a 'human right' to be able to participate in a process that leads to the formulation of laws that the complainants in this case have demonstrated that they are either incapable of, or unwilling to, abide by?"
"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum
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2 comments:
"It's on occasions like this I worry about this conservative streak in me that seems to being growing by the day."
I like that.
Why should prisoners be given the right to vote AND the right to smoke in an enclosed work place?
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