janw@inmet.UUCP (09/22/86)
[rjb@akgud.UUCP ] >However, the Constitution is just a stout dam that holds back the >river but it must pass on some of the water. You can bet your >butt that if enough people wanted to return to human slavery in >this country then the Constitution would be successfully ammended >to allow for that practice. I'm sure any target group for being >slaves would fight it but they would eventually fail. No, it would be imprudent to bet your valuable butt on that. A small but determined minority can put up an awful lot of fight - and make the slavery idea not worth the majority's while. This applies to other coercive measures, too. Combining legal and extralegal means is especially effective for such a minority. Jan Wasilewsky