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To: Irontank
"unfortunately, few people seem to get this (not so complicated) nuance of Constitutional law...and the federal courts now have 60 years of illegitimate rulings behind them which they can cite as some kind of authority for interjecting themselves in every local issue state-religion issue"

The 14th Amend., extending the Bill of Rights to all jurisdictions is post civil war. In case you missed it, States were violating civil rights.

165 posted on 01/09/2006 11:38:35 AM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets

####The 14th Amend., extending the Bill of Rights to all jurisdictions is post civil war.####


No, it didn't extend the Bill of Rights to all jurisdictions:

http://federalistblog.us/mt/articles/14th_dummy_guide.htm#e


169 posted on 01/09/2006 11:41:41 AM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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