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To: Who is John Galt?
Perhaps you should read Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of 1825. I recommend it...
;>)
37 galt


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Perhaps you should link, or excerpt "Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of 1825", so that the rest of us can share the point you are imagining you've made.
39 P_A_I


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Draft Declaration and Protest of Virginia 1825
Address:http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/jeffdec1.htm






Nice enough Declaration. --

-- Why do you imagine it makes a point about anything Jon Roland has written, that I've posted?
48 posted on 03/15/2005 6:39:47 PM PST by P_A_I
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To: P_A_I
Nice enough Declaration. --
-- Why do you imagine it makes a point about anything Jon Roland has written, that I've posted?

A few points:

1) You started this thread, entitled Declaration of Constitutional Principles. Are you suggesting that a document written by Thomas Jefferson, entitled Declaration... on the Principles of the Constitution of the United States and of the Violations of Them is somehow irrelevant to the subject at hand?

2) If Mr. Roland is the author, why did you list the author as "unknown?"

3) Did you know that Mr. Roland was the author of the following comment regarding Marbury v. Madison (which I quoted in part on a different thread)?

"... [Mr. Justice Marshall's] dictum explaining the duty of the court to rule a statute unconstitutional if it was in conflict with the constitution was sound, as far as it went. The problem was that it left the impression that this was the exercise of a power of the court that only the court had. The misleading statement was, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." It is misleading because it connotes that as the "province" it is exclusive of the other departments... When one of the laws in conflict is the constitution, then the duty is of constitutional review, which is only judicial review when it is judges that happen to do it. It is not an exclusive power of the courts..."

;>)

49 posted on 03/16/2005 3:46:29 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("I'll be your 'Lightning Rod of Hate!'" - Colin Mochrie)
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