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To: ndt

No, the 10th Amendment doesn't mention any specific government power.

You have nonetheless repeatedly ignored that despite the fact that the madman Justice Black used Jefferson's "wall of separation" words to help justify his treasonous interpretation of the establishment clause that Jefferson had noted that the Founding Fathers had written the 1st and 10th Amendments in part to delegate government power to address religious issues uniquely to the state governments:

"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. http://tinyurl.com/nkdu7

"3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people..." --Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. http://tinyurl.com/oozoo

1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The bottom line is that Justice Black probably couldn't have picked a worse person to quote to help justify his treasonous interpretation of the establishment clause. Justice Black outright ignored Jefferson's "secret formulas" for interpreting the Constitution:

"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:450

"Common sense [is] the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction." --Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812. ME 18:92


42 posted on 08/27/2006 2:09:22 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
"No, the 10th Amendment doesn't mention any specific government power."

The only one talking about the 10th is you. The closest I have gotten is to say that it is currently interpreted differently than you like and therefor the point was moot.

"...the fact that the madman Justice Black used Jefferson's "wall of separation" words to help justify his treasonous interpretation.."

There is the statement of a man willing to rationally discuss a topic. /sarc

"Jefferson had noted that the Founding Fathers had written the 1st and 10th Amendments in part to delegate government power to address religious issues uniquely to the state governments:"

Are you even aware that I have not even commented on anything even remotely addressing this.

I have no idea who you are arguing with because you are running both sides of the debate. You are rebutting point after point that I did not make.
43 posted on 08/27/2006 2:24:27 PM PDT by ndt
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To: Amendment10
Let me make this really simple for you.

Please provide me with the text of an amendment to rectify what you view as a bad judicial decision.
47 posted on 08/27/2006 2:33:30 PM PDT by ndt
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