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To: John Valentine

And what other rights have the SCOTUS seen in the 14th Amendment?

Take a look at Plyler and how the Court granted Constitutional protections to illegal aliens under the Equal Protection Clause.


131 posted on 01/01/2009 10:22:51 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

You don’t have to convince me that the 14th was badly drafted. This is the amendment that is credited with the legitimization of “anchor babies” when that was precisely the sort of result the Amendment was intended to PREVENT!

When your drafting is ambiguous enough to be turned around by a court in the face of the legislative history and made to mean the exact opposite of what the drafters had intended that’s, at least in part, bad drafting.


133 posted on 01/01/2009 10:27:50 PM PST by John Valentine
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