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   From: Then-Destroy-Everything@Blackhole.NebulaX.com   
      
   On 10/24/2010 5:05 PM, Bob LeChevalier wrote:   
   > Beam Me Up Scotty    
   > wrote:   
   >>> The courts have said otherwise, and *they* have the power to decide,   
   >>> not you.   
   >>   
   >> Where is that power given to the Federal or State government,   
   >   
   > Article III vests the judicial power *solely* in the judiciary.  And   
   > the judicial power is the power to decide cases.   
   >   
   > (Furthermore, in another post I made a few minutes ago, I show with   
   > extensive quotes that conservative justice Scalia, and both the   
   > Federalist and anti-Federalist papers agree on "interpretation" of the   
   > law as being the inherent nature of the judicial power.)   
   >   
      
      
   If Scalia says interpretation is in the constitution he is interpreting   
   the constitution to say that.   
      
   There is the Paradox....   
      
   The Judiciary is NOT directed to interpret any laws....  they are   
   directed to follow the constitution as is all government.   
      
   >> otherwise it belongs to the people, as per the 10th amendment.   
   >   
   > The 10th amendment doesn't say that.  It says that which is not   
   > delegated to the US is given to the States OR the people (unless   
   > expressly prohibited to the states).   
      
   Yes...  and that means the State is held to the constitution and the   
   State judiciary has no power to create laws either.   
      
      
      
   > In a jurisdictional conflict between the states and the people, the   
   > constitution does not give any power exclusively to the people.   
      
      
   every time it says the "right" of the people...   
      
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