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To: Looking for Diogenes
"Oh that's right. They appointed you to do the job."

Yes jackass, they left me to do it. Tell me where in the Constitution it gives the judiciary the exclusive right to interpret the Constitution.
209 posted on 11/11/2003 2:50:50 PM PST by Texas Federalist
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To: Texas Federalist
That would be when their contemporary, John Marshall, interpreted it as such in 1803. He knew them, and had a much greater ability to discern what they meant than you do.

The other interesting part is that they didn't slap him silly, and willingly acceded to his viewpoint.

213 posted on 11/11/2003 2:54:35 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: Texas Federalist
Yes jackass, they left me to do it. Tell me where in the Constitution it gives the judiciary the exclusive right to interpret the Constitution.

DOn't be surprised if the anser is the omnipotent 14TH AMENDMENT. :-}

221 posted on 11/11/2003 3:00:16 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Texas Federalist
Tell me where in the Constitution it gives the judiciary the exclusive right to interpret the Constitution.

I'll let Chief Justice John Marshall answer that.

Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

WILLIAM MARBURY v. JAMES MADISON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 1803


248 posted on 11/11/2003 3:14:59 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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