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To: rockrr
Nevertheless, signing statements carry no weight of law.

I didn't make this point earlier, so i'll make it now.

A ratification statement is not a "signing" statement. It is at the very least an addendum to the contract. The ratification and stipulations must be accepted in whole, or rejected completely.

The statements by New York, Virginia and Rhode Island didn't make a ripple, let alone provoke spontaneous denunciations.

A reasonable conclusion is that they were within the understanding of the founders to be acceptable.

1,091 posted on 01/27/2020 1:45:41 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
A reasonable conclusion is that they were within the understanding of the founders to be acceptable.

The other signatories didn't care what they wrote on their state's documents.....since they carried no weight of law.

1,096 posted on 01/27/2020 2:21:12 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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