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    | "“The people in the state of Oklahoma don’t want..." 
 Memo to Mr. Lowe: When it comes to fundamental, constitutionally protected rights, it doesn't matter what ANYBODY wants - they are unalienable.
 
 This is not a majoritarian political system, it is a constitutional representative republic wherein the Constitution sets the rules, and the rules say that government cannot, even as a surrogate for "what people want," abridge preexisting fundamental rights of the individual.
 
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