[Dead Corpse]

Absurd and illegally ratified? Are you another one of those ones that wants Ol' Nigger Jim back out plowing your north forty?

Was it unusual? Possibly. Having just fought a War over States Rights, an oxymoron as States have "powers" and not Rights, a mechanism needed to be put in place to ensure a baseline of Rights were protected and that they applied to everyone. Why else bother to have a Federal Government at all? This needed to be done because their were asshats that would strip us all over our basic human Rights at the State level if they couldn't do it at the Federal Level.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Neither is every State its own little dictatorship.

[robertpaulsen]

A baseline? Oh, I think we've gone well beyond a baseline of protected rights (unless you think sodomy and abortion are fundamental, inalienable, and constitutionally protected natural rights).

And a display of the Ten Commandments is not. And freedom of association is not.

[JohnGalt]

You left libertarians complain like little girls when you don't get your way and expect us rightwing libertarians to take you seriously.