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To: xcamel
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
The Little Witch has Legal Trouble
Spells are Short, But like a Yawn
The Bench has Ruled to Get Thee GONE!

Get thee to a nunnery!

61 posted on 10/11/2005 6:59:21 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Without historical context, it's meaningless.

Only congress is congress, no other branch, arm, or entity is addressed.

The concept of enumerated powers implies that the legislature may exercise only those powers that are stated in the Constitution, limited, of course, by the Bill of Rights and the other protections found in the Constitutional text.

The judiciary does not make law, it can only rule on the constitutionality of a law.

Anything outside those bounds is a perversion of law and unconstitutional on its face.

67 posted on 10/11/2005 7:36:26 PM PDT by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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