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[quote=Anonymous]“Citizenship is not a right that expires upon misbehavior,” Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the majority in [i]Trop v. Dulles[/i], a 1958 case dealing with the rights of a military deserter. And, he continued, “citizenship is not lost every time a duty of citizenship is shirked.” Yes, prisoners have committed crimes, and yes, some of those are egregious. But depriving any citizen of the right to vote should be the grave exception, not a routine part of national life. Universal suffrage means universal suffrage.[/quote]
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