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To: phi11yguy19

Yet you can NOT even read the tenth Amendment correctly at all which makes clear secession is illegal.

The Founding of this nation was built aruond ‘natural individual rights’ and not around group rights or special political rights built around state empires either.

Which is of course why you are a Lost Causer who still defends the treason of the democrats today.

Pathetic!


163 posted on 04/11/2011 9:23:46 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: TheBigIf

True state rights were meant to preserve ‘individual rights’ which is exactly why you see the word state and People used respectively in the tenth Amendment.

Of course though for Confederate democrats it was meant as a means to enact treason and to undermien the rule of law which is why you see the tenth as a means to call for state anarchy and a throwing off of the rule of law and I see the tenth amendment as a means of preserving individual rights among all under the Constitution.


165 posted on 04/11/2011 9:28:49 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: TheBigIf; phi11yguy19
Yet you can NOT even read the tenth Amendment correctly at all which makes clear secession is illegal

Dear Mr. Madison,

Question: What is the 10th Amendment for?

Answer: First, thank you for waking me from my rest. Second, who is this TheBigIf? Kinda reminds me of our old maid.

“[The Constitution] was constantly justified and recommended on the ground that the powers not given to the government were withheld from it; and that, if any doubt could have existed on this subject, under the original text of the Constitution, it is removed, as far as words could remove it, by the [10th] amendment, now a part of the Constitution, which expressly declares, ‘that 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.’

Furthermore

The states, then, being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal, above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently, that, as the parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition

182 posted on 04/12/2011 5:02:14 AM PDT by Idabilly ("I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. ...)
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