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Herbert W. Titus is an attorney with the law firm of Troy A. Titus, P.C. in Virginia Beach, Virginia and is of counsel to the law firm of William J. Olson, P.C. in McLean, Virginia. Prior to his association with these two firms, Mr. Titus taught constitutional law, common law, and other subjects for nearly thirty years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools. From 1986 to 1993, he served as the founding Dean of the College of Law and Government in Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Prior to his academic career, he served as a Trial Attorney and a Special United States Attorney with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, Missouri. Today he is engaged in a general practice with a concentration in constitutional strategy, litigation, and appeals.

Mr. Titus holds the J.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard and the B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He is an active member of the bar of Virginia and an inactive member of the bar of Oregon. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Tenth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. His constitutional practice has taken him into federal district courts in Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and the District of Columbia and the state courts of Texas and North Dakota.

He serves as general counsel to the American Health Legal Foundation and the Michael New Defense Fund, as well as Senior Legal Advisor to the The Liberty Committee. He also does research and legal writing for the Free Speech Coalition and other similar organizations dedicated to the restoration of constitutional law and liberty in the nation.

Mr. Titus has appeared as a guest on radio and television shows and, for two years, hosted his own daily radio program, That's The Law, on the VCY America network. He has testified on constitutional issues before the United States Congress. He has also testified on state and federal constitutional issues before the state legislatures of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. His views on constitutional law have received wide circulation among members of Congress, state legislatures and public policy advocates and organizations.

Mr. Titus has written numerous articles, book chapters and constitutional studies and analyses. He is the author of God, Man & Law: The Biblical Principle, a widely-acclaimed text on American common law. He has also produced Family to Family Forum, a seminar series featuring audio and video tapes, as well as printed materials, teaching the practical application of common law principles to current public policy issues.

1 posted on 10/24/2004 3:30:47 PM PDT by Ed Current
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To: Ed Current; Salvation; Mr. Silverback; MHGinTN; Coleus; cpforlife.org

Pro-life/pro-baby ping... (still without my ping list).


2 posted on 10/24/2004 3:32:06 PM PDT by cgk (Teresa Heinz Kerry: ``The Democratic machine in this country is putrid.'')
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To: Ed Current
Titus argues:

" --- This is the very essence of the rule of law. No human institution has the final and supreme power to determine what the law is. Otherwise, the rule of law would be reduced to the rule of those who possess such final and supreme power."

He then goes on at length to establish, in effect, that fertilized human eggs are not seen as 'persons' under our rule of law, -- and concludes:

" -- Obviously, this problem could be resolved if Congress acted by declaring that human life begins at conception -- "

Thus, his conclusion contradicts his own previous argument: "-- No human institution [Congress] has the final and supreme power to determine what the law is. --"

Congress has never been granted the power to declare that human life begins at conception.

5 posted on 10/24/2004 4:06:43 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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To: Ed Current; 2nd amendment mama; A2J; Agitate; Alouette; Annie03; aposiopetic; Askel5; attagirl; ...

ProLife Ping!

If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.

8 posted on 10/24/2004 4:42:33 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Ten days left to be a Bush goon! Freepmail me to get on your state's Kerrytrack list today!)
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

10 posted on 10/24/2004 4:49:54 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.)
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To: Ed Current

bump


15 posted on 10/24/2004 6:15:17 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Ed Current; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...

It's a human life NOT an exception and women DO suffer from abortions.

So, what do we do now, urge our congress to use Article III section 2 of the US Constitution to limit the scope of the SCOTUS or have them introduce a human life amendment?


16 posted on 10/24/2004 6:36:52 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Ed Current

Interesting reading. I copied it and want ot go over it a bit. Good luck, finding a president and prosecuters who would have the courage to employ the course of action this article suggests.


21 posted on 10/24/2004 8:32:09 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH
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[Pro-lifers] maintain that women will never be deterred from killing "unwanted" children unless and until abortion is once again condemned by civil society as a morally reprehensible homicide.

Change must come from the bottom and percolate up, not the other way around. You can't legislate a change of heart. We have the truth on our side, and the shock needed to sway enough of the populace to effect precisely the changes needed in the law.

For now, let it be noted it may be time for a tactical shift away from incrementalism toward punctuated equilibrium on our side. The pro-abort/pro-death crowd has been bending society incrementally, getting us used to their ideas gradually. Euthanasia is current, and the emerging one is embryonic stem-cell research.

Abortion by now lies entwined as an integral part of modern American culture. We need a shock: Show people what abortion is. With the American obsession with TV, show one! We have shows on breast implantation and heart surgery. Why not show the most common surgery in America? What are you afraid of Hollywood?

EDUCATION will provide the shock we need.

25 posted on 10/25/2004 5:29:03 PM PDT by Lexinom ("A person's a person no matter how small" - from Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who)
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"In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution does not recognize a child in the womb of a mother as a "person" entitled to the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."

It seems that the black-robed reprobates inhabitating the USSC have always had a problem in determining what constitutes "personhood."

In 1857, they said, in Dredd Scott, that those with African heritage were not to be considered as "persons," but rather "property."

I have never come across evidence that the USSC has ever changed its feeble mind on that issue.

75 posted on 10/27/2004 10:26:39 AM PDT by nightdriver
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