To: mrsmith
Well, if we both agree that the federal government had no power to enforce the Bill of Rights upon the states then we certainly agree! Actually, the Feds are not given explicitly the power to enforce anything. There are certain things that imply such power, such as Article 1:8:18, but what they could legally do if a State started issuing money, for example, is left undefined.
I suppose the last recourse would be to call out the Natl. Guard.
452 posted on
06/21/2004 4:02:10 PM PDT by
LexBaird
(Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
To: LexBaird
A power is enforced by judicial process.
Any power includes the right to enforce it. If a state refused then armed force could be used.
453 posted on
06/21/2004 4:15:18 PM PDT by
mrsmith
("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
To: LexBaird; mrsmith
mrsmith:
Well, if we both agree that the federal government had no power to enforce the Bill of Rights upon the states then we certainly agree!
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Actually, the Feds are not given explicitly the power to enforce anything.
There are certain things that imply such power, such as Article 1:8:18, but what they could legally do if a State started issuing money, for example, is left undefined.
I suppose the last recourse would be to call out the Natl. Guard.
452 -Lex-
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The President is charged in Art. II with protecting & defending the Constitution, and seeing that its Laws are faithfully executed.
If his administration were to establish that officials of the State of Ca are violating our 2nd Amendment, certainly he could charge those State officials with that infringement in Federal court, -- and, -- if they refused to obey a USSC order to cease, enforce an order to jail them for contempt, at the least.
Not so?
456 posted on
06/21/2004 4:33:19 PM PDT by
tpaine
(The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being" -- Solzhenitsyn)
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