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   From: Then-Destroy-Everything@Blackhole.NebulaX.com   
      
   On 10/22/2010 2:20 PM, Peter Franks wrote:   
   > 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,   
      
   The court has no determination on what the law "is".....  they can rule   
   on the constitutionality of the law.   
      
      
   The law is what it is, when it is voted on in congress and given to the   
   President for his signature.  There is no court involved in MAKING a   
   law.  The courts read and use the laws or reject them as unconstitutional.   
      
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