[tpaine]

Eastbound wrote:

Article VI, para 2, as we all are aware of by now, is the supreme law of the land. At least it delineates how the supreme law should be applied.

In that we the people wrote the constitution to provide a mechanism to secure our rights, it should be self-evident that our rights are the supreme law. Why should be write a constitution that removed our rights?

Well, we didn't.
We just got through fighting the king's men to proclaim them.

So life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was the promise of the American Revolution. The right to self-determination and personal sovereignty. Every man a king under his own fig tree. (generically speaking, these days.)
Our charter was worded to express that ideal. In that individuals sometimes encroach on another's rights or space, we created a legal mechanism to punish each other when we went astray.

In the simple wording and logic of Article VI, para 2, (the supremacy clause) it is shown that neither the state nor federal government can infringe upon or impair that ideal, as Congress can make no law which is not in pursuance to that ideal. Nor can the state.

Otherwise there would have been no need for the American Revolution.
That is about as historical as I'm going to get right now.
160 Eastbound

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Your logic trumps even your grasp of our history. Well said.

Let the robertpaulsen type bozos of FR read your words and weep for their ignorance.
163 tpaine

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robertpaulsen wrote:

Logic??? Drooling, mindless babbling is more like it.

"The Constitution is unconstitutional"! What is that?

Maybe you understand that pap -- I don't.
An amendment is part of the Constitution. It is the Constitution.

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Paulsen, you quoted "The Constitution is unconstitutional". --- As if someone here wrote that. No one did.

And imo, calling Eastbounds post #160 "Drooling, mindless babbling" is getting beyond the pale.
I suggest you get control of your emotions.

[robertpaulsen]

"As if someone here wrote that. No one did."

Nice strawman -- "as if".

I never said they wrote it. Is an amendment part of the constitution? And if someone says an amendment is unconstitutional, aren't they saying the constitution is unconstitutional?

Go back to bed.

"And imo, calling Eastbounds post #160 "Drooling, mindless babbling" is getting beyond the pale."

Sorry. I meant to say, "Drooling, mindless, idiotic babbling".