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Orlando Patterson
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Freedom? - Unjust Laws in America

Summary:   This essay evaluates some potentially unjust laws in America.


Some of the laws we have in place today have taken away our rights as Americans. We as a nation should be seriously concerned with the liberties our government has taken with our inalienable rights. In the year 1742, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu said, "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." In the name of security, our government has systematically infringed upon these very rights.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and

makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a.....

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