[clee1]

Bump for later reading.

[konaice]

Sigh...

Ya know, I have SO little patience with anything in the Cong-Rec that I think its largely a waste of time.

Anything inserted in the record but never spoken on the
floor is just drivel. Nobody reads it, nobody cares, and
its all prepared by staff and never seen by the member who
supposidly submitted it.

Drivel.

[A Jovial Cad]

Unbelievable. Members of the United States Marine Corps.--among other Americans in the various Joint Services--are fighting and dying right now in Fallujah, and you post bilge the intent of which is to re-argue the long-settled (139 years and counting) Civil War. Simply unbelievable.

[Scales]

This is an interesting bit of history. The 14th Amendment and the commerce clause is probably the most abused U.S. Con Law provisions. The Fed Courts use these provisions to expand Congressional and Fed Court control and authority over the states in ways that the founding fathers never intended, nor would have tolerated. In Fed Con Law, the background on the 14th Amend was never discussed. Now I see why. This amendment was imposed without benefit of following the constitutional provisions for amendment. The 14th Amendment was presented to me, much the same as evolution is to elementary schools. This is the way it is and this is what happened based on it.

Now I see why they do not want anyone to know that the basis for so much federal court and Congressional control over states is rooted in an unconstitutional constitutional amendment. Talk about a house of cards. That is assuming that all this is true as presented in this argument. It would be an interesting research project or law review article.

[BenLurkin]

When someone tells you that the Constitution is a "living document", what they really mean is that it is dead.

[Noachian]

The problem with most lawyers is their knee-jerk habit of accepting every precedent sentdown by the High Court.

If a precedent is either bad law or unconstiitutional it doesn't seem to matter to those practicing law.

In light of this posting we need someone to challenge the 14th Amendment's constitutionality, and I've yet to see that.