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To: RKV
Come now, I expected better. You resorted to quoting blogs as arguments? Especially from a blogger that was a stand up comic for four years and would like to be emperor? Shall I ask my cats what they think of the 14th Amendment? Granted they can't really talk but I imagine their opinion is about as equal.

If you choose to ignore decades of precedence clearly stating the fact that SCOTUS did not recognize this incorporation theory and the fact some of the quotes from your other editorial provided came from men that reversed their opinion once in their home states, that's not my problem. The issue is the 14th Amendment was clearly to be applied selectively, namely Radical Republicans giving blacks certain civil rights, and nothing else. To state otherwise is being disingenuous.

196 posted on 01/15/2006 7:19:46 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears

I choose to read the debates and take the people who wrote the 14th Amendment at their word. I also consider the courts to have erred greviously in this matter, vis a vis what what meant when the amendment was passed, vs. what the case law now is. Or can you not read the plain text of the debates quoted in the article?


197 posted on 01/15/2006 7:26:25 PM PST by RKV ( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
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