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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
July 12, 2007
Checks and balances are the sole source of legitimacy for a democratic government. If the government is allowed to act outside the law that the people are held to, then it has lost its charter, and 300 years of accumulated sacrifices people have made to get us to this point will have been....