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Support and Defend: How Congress Can Save the Constitution from the Supreme Court
The Heritage Foundation ^ | January 9, 1998 | Matthew J. Franck

Posted on 12/10/2003 3:16:48 PM PST by Federalist 78

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To: Federalist 78
Sandra O'Connor today sodomized the U.S. Constitution! But we must have a stronger Freedom FROM Religion in her mind!
21 posted on 12/10/2003 5:26:05 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife

I can assure you "illegals" will NEVER restore MY country.

I'm so sorry...an apology I owe... great penance is due, for now I must agree with you.

We cannot rely on those illegals do the hard/dirty work that no one else wants to do. Restoring the Constitution is much to difficult for them, and though they will work, they will not work for nothing.

No, we will have to get some specie capable of working hard for nothing. They will have to be satisfied with a "keep up the good work" from an ocassional well-wisher, as they labor at a task that has no end.

If MEChA isn't a beast of burden capable of working tirelessly at one of the most difficult tasks in the history of the world…we will have to find, perhaps genetically engineer, a creature that can endure sustained labor and protracted durations without the sustenance of life itself.

22 posted on 12/10/2003 6:01:33 PM PST by Federalist 78
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
Walter E. Williams needs to be President or on the SCOTUS.
23 posted on 12/10/2003 6:04:11 PM PST by Federalist 78
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To: Federalist 78
AHA!!!! Hit a NERVE did I?? SO a MECHISTA huh?

And let me tell you something.. If people want to COME to America and work LEGALLY, fine!! Get a GREEN card, and come!

Like my ancestors did, and lots of other fine Americans have too.

But you will NOT see me cry crocidile tears for "ILLEGAL" IMMIGRANTS.

I'd love to see you show me where our CONSTITUTION says we should PAY all the TAXES we pay to take care of ILLEGAL immigrants. In fact, show me where it says we need to take care of WELFARE recipients!! Did you even read the link I provided?

OR, do you imagine ILLEGAL immigrants cost us NOTHING?

Oh yes, I suppose we would all starve without "ILLEGAL" immigrants.

So, tell me, are you a member of MEChA?
24 posted on 12/10/2003 6:16:38 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Federalist 78
I would agree with Walter E. Williams being in higher office!
25 posted on 12/10/2003 6:17:20 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife

Amaría ver usted demostrarme donde nuestra CONSTITUCIÓN dice que debemos PAGAR todos los IMPUESTOS que pagamos tomar el cuidado de inmigrantes ILEGALES. ¡En hecho, demuéstreme que donde dice necesitamos tomar el cuidado de los recipientes del BIENESTAR!!

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare OF THE WORLD!

You can't even get any one to notice, much less support this Statement or this bill H.R. 2671 introduced 7/9/2003, with only 112 Cosponsors.
Even after the testimony of John Morganelli & Kris Kobach

How you gonna drum up support for the propostitions of these three:

  1. Federation for American Immigration Reform - Home Page
  2. NumbersUSA
  3. US immigration reform: immigration time-out

Welcome To Congressmen Tom Tancredo's Homepage ain't welcome in the White House.

I nacho MEChA either... comprenda?

26 posted on 12/10/2003 8:17:08 PM PST by Federalist 78
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To: farmfriend
ping
27 posted on 12/10/2003 9:40:28 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: Federalist 78; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

28 posted on 12/10/2003 10:13:03 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: farmfriend
BTT!!!!!
29 posted on 12/11/2003 3:08:19 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Federalist 78
What a stupid article. The Supreme Court upholds just about anything Congress does. Why on earth would Congress want to stop them? The idea is absurd.
30 posted on 12/11/2003 3:25:27 AM PST by Sandy
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Why on earth would Congress want to stop them?

Congress is quite content with the status quo.

Most congressthings cannot imagine anything more horrible than giving up the good life of booze, broads, and bribes.

That they can be involuntarily separated from these good things by inferior beings such as we compounds the horror of it.

What to do?

Enter the Supreme Court. Here is an unaccountable body with life tenure.

Let them do the heavy lifting for transnational progressivism.

That way, no one will get mad at their congressthing (he has to "follow the law", after all, after the Supreme Court makes it up), there will be no reason to vote for a challenger, and now, best of all, you will never even hear of the stupid challenger anyway, because he won't be able to raise any money and his friends are banned from speaking out.

The present correlation of forces (as TASS would say) is perfect for a corrupt and degraded "Congress"-why on earth would they want to change it?

31 posted on 12/11/2003 3:44:50 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Federalist 78
First off, This is AMERICA where our language is ENGLISH, UNDERSTAND?

I do NOT, nor am I REQUIRED to speak SPANISH!!

So NO! I do not COMPRENDE'!!! DO "YOU" understand?

What a RIDICULOUS post, where you BABBLE on in Spanish to an ENGLISH speaking person. Talk about the EPITOMY of ignorance.

That would be like me speaking in Gaelic to you!! One of my Ancestors tongues!! I suppose I have the right to FORCE that on you? Or how about CHEROKEE Indian! After all, we were here FIRST!

Get a clue!

As to Tancredo's homepage, right off I saw some things I don't "disagree" with. Though I haven't had time to "study" his ideologies in great detail.

I will show you what I DID find and agree with in the first two minutes reading the first page I browsed. Then I will read his positions when I have more time to play.

"Securing our borders will enable those who wish to seek economic opportunity in America to do so in a way that is safe and legal"

So, back to MEChA.. in ENGLISH, are you or AREN'T you a member of MEChA?

32 posted on 12/11/2003 1:29:11 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
Are usted va a llevar el QUÉ BIEN TIPO DE PURO NACIÓN hasta reabastecer el Constitución? O are usted va a jugar Chief BABBLE en una moviendo sobre restoring el Constitución?
33 posted on 12/11/2003 3:42:47 PM PST by Federalist 78
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Boy, are you DENSE or what?

What part of ME not speaking Spanish do you NOT Comprende'?
34 posted on 12/11/2003 3:47:20 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
You know everything about MEChA.

All I know, is that the Lt. Gov. of Calif. is supposedly associated with MEChA.

The last statement in post #18 was obvious sarcasm, as was the attempted spanish.

35 posted on 12/11/2003 4:01:34 PM PST by Federalist 78
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I know a TON about MEChA.

I KNOW NOTHING about Spanish. NADA, ZIP, Zilch!!

So even a tad, is more than I know.

And yes, Bustamante is a MECHISTA.

So, when you continually write to me in Spanish it is an insult.

Que pasa? (sp?)



36 posted on 12/11/2003 4:15:36 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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PS. Gotta run, if I do not respond to you, it isn't that I'M being rude, it is just I've played for FAR to long today.

FRegards.
37 posted on 12/11/2003 4:16:31 PM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife

So, when you continually write to me in Spanish it is an insult.

I don't do insults.

If that Spanish could be translated, it would probably resemble this:

Spansh be could, if that this probably translited wood.

38 posted on 12/11/2003 4:25:23 PM PST by Federalist 78
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In recent cases such as U.S. v. Lopez and Printz v. U.S.,17 some see a trend toward the defense of federalism on the Supreme Court.

An interesting development, and somewhat ironic historically considering the context of the article. The Substantail Effects Doctrine is directly derived from the New Deal Commerce Clause, a doctrine that was first opposed by the USSC. It was only accepted under the threat of FDR's Court Packing Bill - a mechanism by which Congress and the Executive branches forced the USSC to come around to their way of thinking.

39 posted on 12/11/2003 4:45:50 PM PST by tacticalogic (Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
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To: tacticalogic

An interesting development, and somewhat ironic historically considering the context of the article. The Substantail Effects Doctrine is directly derived from the New Deal Commerce Clause, a doctrine that was first opposed by the USSC. It was only accepted under the threat of FDR's Court Packing Bill - a mechanism by which Congress and the Executive branches forced the USSC to come around to their way of thinking.

Consider this: Congress can impeach and remove from office, the President and any on the USSC. Presidential appointees to the USSC must be approved by the Senate. Now that is "predominating" power, as Madison stated in Fed #51, "In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."

Will O. DePeople can compare the Constitution to the judicial opinions, congressional testimony and the fire side chats from Mr. President and decide for themselves who is correct and who stands to be corrected in the fed gov.

Great problems occur when the check/balance features are discarded, as any, or all branches shred the Constitution and Will O. DePeople either fails to recognize it, or could care less, as the republic dies the death by a thousand paper cuts.

 

40 posted on 12/11/2003 9:38:30 PM PST by Federalist 78
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