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To: tpaine
Those are the sections specifying that states are bound to honor the Constitution & BOR's

False, question beggar.

The constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual states. Each state established a constitution for itself, and, in that constitution, provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily applicable to the government created by the instrument. They are limitations of power granted in the instrument itself; not of distinct governments, framed by different persons and for different purposes.

USSC, Barron v. Baltimore, 7 Pet. 243 1833


369 posted on 03/13/2003 12:39:15 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
'Barron' was an erroneous opinion, - an obvious political appeasement in an effort to avoid civil war.

The Constitution, as quoted, is our supreme law.
Case closed.
377 posted on 03/13/2003 7:23:28 AM PST by tpaine
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