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To: lentulusgracchus
"And, for the last time, all powers are reserved to the States which are not explicitly granted to the federal government under the terms of the Constitution."

You like to quote the secessionist mantra, but it is of no consequence. In nearly 215 years there has never been an authoritative interpretation of the 10th Amendment which suggests that it authorizes or permits the states to leave the Union - or do do anything remotely related to that.

The "all powers" argument is for the intellectually weak.

1,286 posted on 11/26/2004 1:50:08 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio
In nearly 215 years there has never been an authoritative interpretation of the 10th Amendment which suggests that it authorizes or permits the states to leave the Union - or do do anything remotely related to that.

People who know how to read black letters on white paper don't need shysters and mountebanks to tell them what's there.

People who possess a mind don't need "authorities" to speak to them in the language of direction.

You sound so much like Winston Smith, it's sickening. Listen to yourself -- and you call yourself an American. An American flatworm, is more like it. Not even a notochord.

The "all powers" argument is for the intellectually weak.

You mean, the militarily weak. Appeal to teleology again: "argumentum ex we won!"

Your discourse is nakedly corrupt -- intellectually and morally. But then, cynics like you get off on being told that. You think of it as styling, an upscale version of what street thugs going nowhere like to do. They show off their blings and their Lorcins; you strut your one-liners and your cynical quotes from compromising authors. Sick, all of you.

1,296 posted on 11/26/2004 3:07:57 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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