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Yvonne Miller, D-Norfolk, has sponsored constitutional amendments that would allow the General Assembly to enact a blanket restoration of voting rights to nonviolent felons once they complete their sentences. The measure typically passes the Senate only to be killed in the House of Delegates.
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hamptonroads.com/2008/10/activists-helping-restore-felo...
hamptonroads.com/2008/10/activists-helping-restore-felons-voting-rights-election
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1. loses the right to become an elector and cannot vote, hold public office, or run for office, although he can have these rights restored; ... The EEOC has ruled repeatedly that covered employers cannot simply bar felons from consideration, but must show that a conviction-based disqualification is justified by...
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www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/jud/rpt/2003-R-0333.htm
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> constitutional right to; > >purchase a firearm. In all but a handful of cases due to the; > errors in the; > >background check. That's right. Those 250,000 felons were in; > fact almost; > ... In the fourth group of states, federal felons can have their civil rights restored only if they are granted a pardon. The final and...
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www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-11060.htm...
www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-11060.html
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Gun Rights for Felons? July 22, 2008; Don B. Kates, Jr.; New York Post; ... The high-court opinion vindicated the constitutional right of ordinary, responsible law-abiding adults to have a handgun to protect their families, homes and themselves. It also flatly stated that this right does not apply to criminals.
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www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2276
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Since 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting on the ground and… ... CCR Argues That Disenfranchisement of Felons Results in the Denial of Voting Rights to Disproportionate Numbers of African-Americans and Hispanics.
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ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/docket:-ccr-file...
ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/docket:-ccr-files-amicus-brief-support-voting-rights-felons
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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND THE GRAND JURY; HEARING; BEFORE THE; SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION; OF THE; COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS; SECOND SESSION; JULY 27, 2000;
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commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju67333.000/hju67333_0.htm
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No problem with the Bill of Rights -- it DOESN'T APPLY. ... There should be no NEED for me to ever "submit to a background check" to prove I'm "not a felon." Felons should be in prison, or in the graveyard.
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www.electricnevada.com/pages98/vin1122a.htm
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Even our "champions" at the NRA have been known to concede: "Certainly, all reasonable people agree a mechanism is needed to keep guns out of the hands of certain people, like convicted felons ..." ; Then I'm proud to be unreasonable. ... president signs a specific paper, "restoring his civil rights." ;
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www.electricnevada.com/pages98/vin_0829.htm
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The Constitutional Convention ... The Second Amendment is the only provision in the Bill of Rights that contains a prefatory statement of purpose. This prefatory language may seem to create an inconsistency or tension between the stated purpose and the operational language used by the framers to advance that purpose.
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www.virginiainstitute.org/publications/primer_on_const....
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