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   From: none@none.com   
      
   On 10/21/2010 10:47 AM, cpt banjo wrote:   
   > On Oct 21, 11:01 am, Peter Franks  wrote:   
   >> On 10/21/2010 8:11 AM, cpt banjo wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Oct 21, 9:05 am, Beam Me Up Scotty>> Everyth...@Blackhole.NebulaX.com>    wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> Doesn't it read that way?   
   >>   
   >>>> Or do you simply interpret what ever you want....  The fear was of an   
   >>>> all powerful Federal Government like a KING.  States still had "rights"   
   >>   
   >>> That's the way it was in the beginning, but the 14th Amendment changed   
   >>> things.  States no longer have the right to deny due process or equal   
   >>> protection of the laws.   
   >>   
   >> Neither of which is relevant to the topic at hand.   
   >   
   > Of course it is, per the Supreme Court.  You have never accepted the   
   > fact that it's the Court's opinion that determines what the law is,   
   > not yours.   
      
   Let me make this a bit clearer, since you missed it the first time around:   
      
   Due Process and Equal Protection have nothing to do with 'separation of   
   church and state', the topic at hand.   
      
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