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The bill required significant compromise to pass the state legislature.

The legislature is so broken it cannot operate.

If state legislatures had been permitted to wrangle over abortion, Americans would have been obliged to argue with each other like grown-ups about its moral import and practical effects.

But don’t expect a newly elected legislature to solve France’s deeper crises, which trace to a budget bloated with unsustainable spending that sucks life out of an anemic economy.

Otherwise, these minorities may be shut out from political representation in Congress, state legislatures or county boards.