Ben Carson: A Muslim shouldn't be elected president
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By that logic, we should just get hedge fund managers to run the country. All they know how to do is screw their clients, make millions to billions in the process, and care only about themselves. Oh and when the law catches up with them, it's time to start blaming everyone else but yourself. Man, that sounds dead on to how conservatives are!!
Obviously the first one. At least then society as a whole would move forward rather than the billion dollar earner.
Misinformation leads to conservative formation.
Hey I got one.
What do you have when you get 1000 Conservatives drowning in the ocean?
A great start!
A republican found a magic genie's lamp and rubbed it. The genie said : "I will grant you one wish." He said : "I wish I were smarter". So the genie made him smarter. The next day he became a Democrat.
Much better than Bush did. Oh wait, Bush got us nowhere at all. It was the liberals who had to step in and fix the problems conservatives started.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-economy-democratic-presidents-republican-2013-12
Study finds economy does better under democratic Presidents. Fancy that.
Study finds economy does better under democratic Presidents. Fancy that.
and the left does not understand states rights until the states start to nullify Federal law....
the federal govt has been trying to whittle away these religious tests in state law but they are meeting resistance... especially know that the states are starting to nullify the feds on issues like marijuana.
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Earlier in U.S. history, the doctrine of states' rights allowed individual states complete discretion regarding the inclusion of a religious test in their state constitutions. Such religious tests have in recent decades been deemed to be unconstitutional by the extension of the First Amendment provisions to the states (via the incorporation of the 14th Amendment).
Eight states do include language in their constitutions either requiring state officeholders to have particular religious beliefs or specifically protecting those who do:
the federal govt has been trying to whittle away these religious tests in state law but they are meeting resistance... especially know that the states are starting to nullify the feds on issues like marijuana.
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Earlier in U.S. history, the doctrine of states' rights allowed individual states complete discretion regarding the inclusion of a religious test in their state constitutions. Such religious tests have in recent decades been deemed to be unconstitutional by the extension of the First Amendment provisions to the states (via the incorporation of the 14th Amendment).
Eight states do include language in their constitutions either requiring state officeholders to have particular religious beliefs or specifically protecting those who do:
- Arkansas (Article 19 Section 1)
- Maryland (Article 37)
- Mississippi (Article 14, Section 265)
- North Carolina (Article 6 Section 8)
- Pennsylvania (Article 1 Section 4)
- South Carolina (Article 17 Section 4)
- Tennessee (Article 9 Section 2)
- Texas (Article 1 Section 4)