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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Really? So where are they in the Constitution? You're the one insisting that the document says what it says and no more, but now you're telling me that there are things in it that aren't present in the text.

Here you go:

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New York

http://www.constitution.org/rc/rat_decl-ny.htm

That the Powers of Government may be reassumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments of the Government thereof, remains to the People of the several States, or to their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same...

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Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/const/ratri.htm

3d That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people, whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness:- That the rights of the States respectively, to nominate and appoint all State Officers, and every other power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by the said constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States or to the departments of government thereof, remain to the people of the several states, or their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same; and that those clauses in the said constitution which declare that Congress shall not have or exercise certain powers, do not imply, that Congress is entitled to any powers not given by the said constitution, but such clauses are to be construed as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution.

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Virginia

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/const/ratva.htm

We the Delegates of the People of Virginia duly elected in pursuance of a recommendation from the General Assembly and now met in Convention having fully and freely investigated and discussed the proceedings of the Federal Convention and being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us to decide thereon Do in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will...

Each of these ratification documents was accepted as submitted...

179 posted on 08/27/2008 6:12:16 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: Who is John Galt?
Each of these ratification documents was accepted as submitted...

You have that backwards. It was the states that were doing the accepting, not the other way around. And somewhere in each of the ratification documents you referenced was a line that stated they assent to and ratify the Constitution as passed out of the Philadelphia convention. And that would include the part that says the Constituiton, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land. Not the ratification documents.

190 posted on 08/28/2008 6:27:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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