Grievance 38 - Oppression

The U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights failed to clearly define boundaries
for private property leading to charges of unjust use of government power.

Besides grievances of personal privacy invasion posted elsewhere to a
candid world, emotional debate revolved around the U.S. flag with
demands that an Amendment to the Constitution be ratified that would ban
burning the emblem as a protest against the government. The question of
whether individuals had the right to destroy their private property on
privately-owned land was lost in the dispute over what the flag was
intended to represent.

Restaurant and bar owners complained that government banning of smoking
on their premises was another form of oppression, especially in those cases
where patrons had no complaint and even defied the ban.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Anti-Cigarette League of America lobbied some city and state politicians to outlaw the private use of "coffin nails", which became private property at purchase, and the laws were later repealed as unworkable. Prohibition of liquor was likewise a failure, as noted elsewhere.

With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals rights, including what comprises private property, are clearly defined.

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