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To: wideawake
The Constitution is a document that makes certain basic assumptions that it doesn't explicitly articulate.

I see. So you are advocating the "penumbra" approach to Constitutional Law -- that certain assumptions are there, in the Constitution, even if not expressly stated, such as the right of a woman to kill her unborn child. Ask yourself why there are no Federal laws on the books making murder, by itself, a federal crime.

158 posted on 09/27/2006 1:57:41 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
So you are advocating the "penumbra" approach to Constitutional Law

Apparently you're unaware of the meaning of the word "penumbra."

248 posted on 09/28/2006 5:55:41 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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