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To: Merchant Seaman
To illustrate that example and to expose the unconstitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment...

Did I miss something? How on earth can an amendment be "unconstitional"?
It is AMMENDING the Constituion.
It is the document that defines consitutionality.
Maybe I missed something? - plewis1250
4 posted on 04/04/2006 11:28:17 AM PDT by plewis1250
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To: plewis1250
You missed the 10TH AMENDMENT:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Just because it is written that the states can't do certain things, it does not mean that the federal government can do them, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY ENUMERATED IN THE CONSTITUTION.

7 posted on 04/04/2006 11:36:58 AM PDT by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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To: plewis1250
How on earth can an amendment be "unconstitional"?
If it is followed when in fact it was not properly ratified. If not properly ratified, then it is not law, even though it is being enforced. The act of enforcing it as the supreme law of the land would be unconstitutional, since it would not be the supreme law of the land.

Cordially,
GE
17 posted on 04/04/2006 11:45:40 AM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: plewis1250

To illustrate that example and to expose the unconstitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment...

Did I miss something? How on earth can an amendment be "unconstitional"?
It is AMMENDING the Constituion.
It is the document that defines consitutionality.
Maybe I missed something?

We seem to be lost in the same big box store - let me know if you get an intelligent answer.


32 posted on 04/04/2006 12:14:59 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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