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To: lentulusgracchus

You provide examples of one case being overturned by another after a lapse of some time. I was talking about well-established and foundational legislation. Taney simply failed to respect the law so as to replace it with his racist agenda.


1,091 posted on 11/24/2004 9:25:08 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio
I was talking about well-established and foundational legislation.

A hell of a lot of Southerners thought Plessey "foundational", too -- and gun-grabbers love their Miller, and they get all glowy at the thought of Presser, which found tightly circumscribing Militia membership as a gun-grabbing tactic constitutional.

1,146 posted on 11/24/2004 2:35:30 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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