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To: tpaine

"Not true.. If a States law "respects an establishment of religion", -- or contradicts any other provision of the Law of the Land, -- it can be found unconstitutional under Article VI."

No, the Federal government is forbidden to get involved. THAT is the law of the land. You can't break a law to enforce it.


50 posted on 07/13/2006 5:46:24 PM PDT by Cato Uticensis
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To: Cato Uticensis
Not true.. If a States law "respects an establishment of religion", -- or contradicts any other provision of the Law of the Land, -- it can be found unconstitutional under Article VI.

No, the Federal government is forbidden to get involved. THAT is the law of the land.

"Congress shall make no law" does not mean the "-- Federal government is forbidden to get involved. --" THAT is ~not~ the law of the land, it's what you imagine it to be.

You can't break a law to enforce it.

Obviously not. No one here is saying you can.

51 posted on 07/13/2006 6:20:53 PM PDT by tpaine
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