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To: OneWingedShark

You lost me on step 6.

Actually, you lost me before that. “If two or more persons conspire to injure, etc.,... in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” That sounds like it would have to a right secured in the U.S. Constitution or a federal law to be covered by this provision.

Armchair lawyering usually turns out poorly, which is partially a condemnation of our bloated system and partially evidence that people often see what they want to see in the law. (I’m guilty too.)

But really, step 6 is a show-stopper.


3 posted on 04/27/2011 7:23:06 PM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: Gil4

So then you’re saying that the 14th Amendment’s restriction on States from “depriv[ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” is not being violated when state lawmakers pass State Statutes which a) contradict the State Constitution, and b) are enforced, with full force and authority of the law, to the point where their implementation is in-practice an amendment/revision of the State Constitution?


9 posted on 04/28/2011 6:58:58 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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