[TOUGH STOUGH]

Not in the current judicial climate. Sorry.

I have had several courses in law the past year, ten to be precise, in each I recieved an "A". As bad as my momentary lapse of memory may be, as I have already confessed to EV, please spare me the lessons on the constitution. EV's reminder was all I needed, and the memory of my paper on due process and the 14th amendent, has been almost completely restored.

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TOUGH STOUGH
I am no more of an authoritarian than are you.

Then you believe there is a right to abortion in the constitution?
BTW, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution.
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Oh, it's in the Constitution...in the Bill of Rights.

No person may be deprived of their life, their liberty or their property without due process, i.e. a fair trial.
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The most important Constitutional mention of our rights to life, liberty, or property, is in the 14th Amendment.

         As the second Justice Harlan recognized:

     "The full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause `cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution.
This `liberty´ is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property; the freedom of speech, press, and religion; the right to keep and bear arms; the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and so on. 
It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints."

A "marriage amendment" would be a perfect example of 'substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints".
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TOUGH STOUGH wrote:
Not in the current judicial climate. Sorry.

I have had several courses in law the past year, ten to be precise, in each I recieved an "A".

As bad as my momentary lapse of memory may be, as I have already confessed to EV, please spare me the lessons on the constitution. EV's reminder was all I needed, and the memory of my paper on due process and the 14th amendent, has been almost completely restored

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What good is a 'restored memory', when you failed to understand the basic principles behind due process of law?
EV's reminder about a fair trial is only part of due process. The far more important part is to prevent 'unfair', unconstitutional laws from being written to begin with.
-- Take some more courses at a better school. You were misled in the first ten.