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To: GreenEyedGal
I stumbled across writings by Thomas Jefferson when Judge Roger Moore was having issues with his Ten Commandments display. Based on what I had been taught about absolute church and state separation, Jefferson's writings didn't make sense.

For example, here's one excerpt from Jefferson's writings where Jefferson had noted that the Founding States had had made the 1st and 10th Amendments in part to clarify that the states had reserved uniquely to themselves the specific power to regulate our 1st Amendment protected rights regardless that the states had made 1A to prohibit such powers to Congress entirely.

"3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed; …" --Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.

The bottom line is that FDR's activist justices had essentially rewritten history about Jefferson to nuke the Constitution to allow Congress to do what it pleased. But when you get a grip on the Founding States' division of federal and state government powers s evidenced by the Jefferson excerpt above, then you not only read the Constitution and its history differently, but you will be able to spot corruption in all three branches of the federal government a mile away.

On the other hand, possibly many lawmakers regard themselves as true patriots, but were taught law by radical professors who they didn't know were enemies of the Constitution.

14 posted on 12/08/2012 10:27:35 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Then according to this, it would seem the States had every right to decide as they wished on matters of speech, religion, etc., but not the federal government. Then I wonder, well, what was the purpose of the Supreme Court? It was supposed to act as a balance of power for Congress, I’m guessing, and rule on what laws were issued by them? I’m also guessing the way the SCOTUS reviews these cases that come from states were not intended? Like SCOTUS deciding to hear the case on the ban against homosexual marriage? I’m a little confused now.


15 posted on 12/09/2012 5:39:41 AM PST by GreenEyedGal
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