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To: P_A_I
"And the State Constitutions are subordinate to the US Constitutions supreme Law of the Land, and all State officials are pledged to support the US Constitution & its Amendments. Read Article VI sometime, once you get out of that corner."

I see. So if Congress passes a constitutional federal law, and the law survives numerous court challenges all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, then the citizens of the states must also comply, correct?

And if a state official, pledged to support the US Constitution, attempts to pass state legislation contrary to federal law, why, that would be treason, would it not?

Well then, you and I are in agreement.

118 posted on 02/15/2005 6:17:59 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
"And the State Constitutions are subordinate to the US Constitutions supreme Law of the Land, and all State officials are pledged to support the US Constitution & its Amendments. Read Article VI sometime, once you get out of that corner."

I see. So if Congress passes a constitutional federal law, and the law survives numerous court challenges all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, then the citizens of the states must also comply, correct?

IF, big if, it is constitutional. Our courts make many mistakes, and the other branches of both State & Fed governments are supposed to check & balance the judicial. -- As do juries.

And if a state official, pledged to support the US Constitution, attempts to pass state legislation contrary to federal law, why, that would be treason, would it not? Well then, you and I are in agreement.

Not really. You still advocate a States 'right' to prohibit guns, or most anything else.
Moral majority rule is not the american way, paulsen.

121 posted on 02/15/2005 6:50:32 AM PST by P_A_I
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"I see. So if Congress passes a constitutional federal law, and the law survives numerous court challenges all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, then the citizens of the states must also comply, correct?"

Then you agree with the court's decisions regarding abortion?


146 posted on 02/15/2005 10:02:43 AM PST by CSM ("I just started shooting," said Gloria Doster, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out ....")
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