Posted on 06/23/2011 12:23:31 PM PDT by flowerplough
Angry young feminist blog's take:
"Sh!t. That makes 37 states with such a law."
link that their link sub-links: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/politics/23brfs-LAWMAKERSOVE_BRF.html?_r=1&src=recg
*http://rightgrrl.com/sexforacause.html
2/3rds (34) of States to call a constitutional convention, and 3/4ths (38) to ratify a new amendment to the constitution.
Don’t think that the SCOTUS is unaware of this. With 38 States agreeing on anything, judicial precedent that disagrees is seen as “Dredd Scott” arrogant.
“While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this (7-2) SCOTUS decision, it aroused outrage and deepened sectional tensions. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the post-Civil war Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were created explicitly to counter aspects of this decision.”
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