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. Freedom FoudlHw Award Wining tetter By Mike Brewer From the days of the infancy of our nation to its present po sition as the greatest power in the world, the theme of "A Free Ballot - A Free Country" has sounded loud and dear in the halls of American History. It was expressed so dramatically in Patrick Henry's never-to-be forgotten line of "Give me concept of liberty meant the right of each Individual to ex press his feelings and opinions as to how his government should function; with the key instru ment of expressing this feeling being the voteor ballot. Henry's liberty or death principle did not die with the colonial era but has continued to live in the hearts and minds of a very free dom loving citizen through the annals of our proud heritage. It is very much alive today for when the public and Its elected officials witness the right of the individual to the vote being in fringed upon, they act swiftly to correct the situation. This has been exemplified by the pass age of the historical fifteenth and nineteenth amendments, and more recently by the l 957Civtl Pights Act. There are many other examples of this country's desire to obtain for everyone an equal opportunity to voice his opinion as to what course this nation pursues, but these are too numerous to mention. From our analysis, there arises a question: What do these striking illustrations, in pro viding the free ballot, have to do. with the development of a once small band of thirteen colonies into the most powerful nation the world has ever seen? The ans wer to this question lies in the idea that the system of allowing the vote to every indi vidual possible has created an environment suitabletothebest possibl e growth of a democra tic government. This growth in turn arises from the laws and concepts which act as a cata lysis to the moral and spiri tual development of this coun try. These laws and concepts come from a wide divergence of ideas and opinions expres sed by the public. The public then makes its wishes and de sires known through the use of the prime tool of a democratic society . . . the free ballot. The free ballot to the individual is his one means of saying to his fellowman, his elected and appointed superiors, his coun try and the world, THIS IB THE WAY I FEEL, OR THIS IS THE WAY I WOULD HANDLE T^E SITUATION. If one takes away the individual's right tothefree ballot; one no longer has a free country. Instead, a situa tion is created wherein an ex pression or belief which one has to offer has been virtuallv put to death. If an Idea or con cept is put to death, there re sults a cancerous growth which tends to eat away upon society. The core of this cancer begins with the restriction of the in dividual's most precious right; the free use of the ballot. This growth then spreads to the in dividual's associates, family and friends who perhaps in turn are also denied this right. It further spreads by means of apathy, discontent and disbelief in the concepts of afreesociety until a large segment of the na tion or country is Internally de stroyed at its own hands. Once freedom of expression by ballot is impeded and restricted, the decay of the once proud nation begins. Wars, rebellions, apathy, discontent, anarchy, and all the monsters created by the above described situations raise their ugly heads as stal wart reminders of thefopl sttu May Almighty God grant this nation one great blessing; that its government, its citizens and its leaders have the insight, the knowledge and the Judgment to see thai the only solid founds tton upon which- democracy stands is the free ballot. 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