http://www.2concon.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:15:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 48 states in America prevent or impair felons and ex-felons from their right to vote as guaranteed by the 15th amendment of the United States Constitution. We are talking about hundreds of thousand of individuals who cannot vote That amendment states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote ... http://www.2concon.org/disenfranchising-ex-prisoners-and-felons-violates-the-15th-amendment/ It is time to complain again about the woefully anachronistic and anti-democratic Electoral College. When Al Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote in 2000, Senator Hillary Clinton promised an all-out effort to end the Electoral College. That effort died with nary a whimper. I am ... http://www.2concon.org/the-death-of-the-electoral-college-will-not-come-easily/ The California bill banning trans fats from restaurants in 2011 and from retail bakery products by 2012, which was signed into law on July 25th , will protect the health and safety of anyone in California eating these particular items of food. The law is being acclaimed ... http://www.2concon.org/banning-trans-fats-and-the-right-to-safety/ As the long and tedious presidential primary season draws to a merciful close, what have American citizens learned about the democratic nature of the process and why should they care? Americans should have learned that their primary process is undemocratic. By “democratic” I mean governmental rule on the principle of equality. ... http://www.2concon.org/our-undemocratic-primaries-and-how-to-democratize-them/ The Declaration of Independence states that governments exist to “secure the rights of the people.” That is a highly significant statement. It suggests that if we citizens could uncover and disclose all of a person’s rights, then all government would have to do is secure those rights by allocating and ... http://www.2concon.org/what-is-a-human-right/ Progressives instituted the direct primary as a reform of party and state caucuses where the practice was for the party elite to nominate political candidates. But the primary did not catch hold in all states. Many states have caucuses and Texas just held a hybrid primary election/caucus that ... http://www.2concon.org/the-anti-democratic-caucus/ http://www.2concon.org/httpwwwpoliticocom/ http://www.2concon.org/wwwdailykoscom/ For starters, the right to a future is not some sci-fi concept--although it sounds like it. The right to a future means that each of us has right to expect that our government will place sufficient resources into prediction, prevention, protection and planning. The planning must necessarily include the possible consequences of ... http://www.2concon.org/why-americans-need-a-right-to-a-future/ http://www.2concon.org/wwwwordpresscom/