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To: AndyJackson
I believe that, for instance, marital relations, being of common law origin, predate and are implicit in the Constitution, and I don't think that the state has the power to define what happens in the marital bed.

Then SCOTUS will find whatever else they please to be implicit, of common law origin, and a penumbra of the Constitution, and will rule over all of us completely untethered.

Andrew Jackson is likely spinning in his grave knowing you are holding such loosey-goosey views of the Constitution while using his name.

197 posted on 10/19/2005 6:01:12 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch
Andrew Jackson is likely spinning in his grave knowing you are holding such loosey-goosey views of the Constitution while using his name.

You may not like my statement, but it is hardly original with me. Recognize the following: the constitution adopts in their full extent the common and statute law of Great-Britain, by which many other rights not expressed in it are equally secured.

Sound familiar? I thought not. The source - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper #84.

202 posted on 10/19/2005 6:10:45 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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