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18) Attempts to manipulate the system by circumventing or exploiting laws is also considered treason if convicted by a jury and punishable by death. Treason can occur on the federal, state, or local levels.

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I'm joining the insurgency if this gets ratified.

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Why? Why would you need to circumvent the deregulated, antimonopolistic free market system?

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I guess not completely deregulated if circumvention is punishable by death. And I guess not completely anti-monopolistic if your govt has a monopoly on murder.

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Fair enough. I understand the anti-Capital Punishment crowd as, in actuality, I am one.

If we were to understand "treason" as an attempt to manipulate the document written above and were to understand it to be punishable by long imprisonment, would you be against it?

I think that an enforceable document along my general lines of thinking would limit the ability for socialism, facism, and totalitarianism in general.

My general line of thought is that some combination of talent, hard work, education, and, yes, luck, generally win out. Granted, it can't guarantee anything as that is virtually impossible.