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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDING OF GUN BAN WOULD VIOLATE U.S. CONTRACT WITH
MONTANA, OTHER STATES
ALAN GREENBLATT, GOVERNING - With the Supreme Court ready to hear a gun
rights case for the first time in decades, Brad Johnson, Montana's
secretary of state, sends a letter to the Washington Times suggesting
that the terms of entry of his state into the union will be violated if
the Court rules the wrong way:
"The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a
right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the
power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is
called the "collective rights" theory.
"A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by
which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United
States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When
Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in
1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana
Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms,
clearly an individual right. . .
"A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era
of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract
between the United States and Montana, and many other states."
http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2008/02/would-montana-s.html
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OTHER NEWS
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WHY ARE WE SO MEAN TO FOREIGNERS?
ERIC LUCAS, LA TIMES - Overseas arrivals to the U.S. have declined 11%
this decade, to 23 million in 2007 from 26 million in 2000. Travel is
the world's largest industry, currently worth $5 trillion, and it is
growing 6% a year. It employs almost a quarter of a billion people. . .
These are the 29 countries whose citizens may visit the U.S. without a
visa. . . It's a near lily-white list. The rest of the world's people --
all 5 multicolored billion of them -- are suspect. And overseas, they
know the U.S. thinks that.
Canada, by comparison, accepts nonvisa visits from citizens of more than
50 countries. The European Union exempts all EU-member nations, plus
another 43 countries, including South Korea, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.
So it's easier for a Mexican citizen to visit Europe than the United
States.
We're no more helpful once a visitor arrives. . . There's an
international symbol -- an outline of an airplane -- used on direction
signs all over Europe, Asia and in Mexico. Not here. . .
Tourism Vancouver, which promotes visits to that Canadian city, posts
its website in six languages. At Vancouver's Metropolitan Hotel, staff
members muster 20 languages among them. The Los Angeles visitors bureau
has four foreign languages on its website -- Spanish, Korean, Chinese
and Japanese -- which is a darn sight better than Seattle (one, Spanish)
and San Francisco (none). Disneyland? Spanish. . . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-lucas19feb19,0,2573152.story
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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDING OF GUN BAN WOULD VIOLATE U.S. CONTRACT WITH
MONTANA, OTHER STATES
ALAN GREENBLATT, GOVERNING - With the Supreme Court ready to hear a gun
rights case for the first time in decades, Brad Johnson, Montana's
secretary of state, sends a letter to the Washington Times suggesting
that the terms of entry of his state into the union will be violated if
the Court rules the wrong way:
"The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a
right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the
power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is
called the "collective rights" theory.
"A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by
which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United
States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When
Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in
1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana
Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms,
clearly an individual right. . .
"A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era
of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract
between the United States and Montana, and many other states."
http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2008/02/would-montana-s.html
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OTHER NEWS
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WHY ARE WE SO MEAN TO FOREIGNERS?
ERIC LUCAS, LA TIMES - Overseas arrivals to the U.S. have declined 11%
this decade, to 23 million in 2007 from 26 million in 2000. Travel is
the world's largest industry, currently worth $5 trillion, and it is
growing 6% a year. It employs almost a quarter of a billion people. . .
These are the 29 countries whose citizens may visit the U.S. without a
visa. . . It's a near lily-white list. The rest of the world's people --
all 5 multicolored billion of them -- are suspect. And overseas, they
know the U.S. thinks that.
Canada, by comparison, accepts nonvisa visits from citizens of more than
50 countries. The European Union exempts all EU-member nations, plus
another 43 countries, including South Korea, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.
So it's easier for a Mexican citizen to visit Europe than the United
States.
We're no more helpful once a visitor arrives. . . There's an
international symbol -- an outline of an airplane -- used on direction
signs all over Europe, Asia and in Mexico. Not here. . .
Tourism Vancouver, which promotes visits to that Canadian city, posts
its website in six languages. At Vancouver's Metropolitan Hotel, staff
members muster 20 languages among them. The Los Angeles visitors bureau
has four foreign languages on its website -- Spanish, Korean, Chinese
and Japanese -- which is a darn sight better than Seattle (one, Spanish)
and San Francisco (none). Disneyland? Spanish. . . .
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-lucas19feb19,0,2573152.story
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