And most Americans believe that the USA Patriot Act "is within acceptable bounds in its treatment of civil liberties, " the Gallup News Service announces.

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But in reality the institution of marriage exists outside any laws, and in fact our understanding of marriage as a social construct bounds what we consider to be acceptable or unacceptable laws about marriage.

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