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To: billbears
But I don't understand Scalia's decision in Cruzan. Right.....

Exactly right, in fact you don't understand much of anything. The right to life is in the Constitution, the power of the state to intevene by preventing end of life decisions is not. What that means bullwinkle is that state ordered deaths of citizens is constitutionally the jurisdiction of the federal governments power of judicial review when individual rights may have been violtaed by a state actor.

It's called due process. Got it now?

361 posted on 06/21/2005 2:54:02 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
The right to life is in the Constitution

Where?

What article are you reading?

The right to life is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence along with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Where do you get the idea that "life" is the capstone of American values?

I always thought liberty was. After all...look at how many lives we have sacrificed to it.

363 posted on 06/21/2005 3:12:05 PM PDT by KDD (http://www.gardenofsong.com/midi/popgoes.mid)
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