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To: SampleMan

"If it said what you'd like it to say, only Treason would be a crime."

Not quite. Treason, piracy and counterfeiting are the only crimes where the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has jurisdiction (outside federal military enclaves, where Congress does have authority to regulate the conduct of the armed services, as it does using the Uniform Code of Military Justice). All other crime is then dealt with by the States and the local authorities.


263 posted on 10/27/2006 11:01:38 PM PDT by dcwusmc (The government is supposed to fit the Constitution, NOT the Constitution fit the government!)
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To: dcwusmc
All other crime is then dealt with by the States and the local authorities.

You're doing a bit of parsing on my posts. In context, you aren't correcting anything. My point was that the Constitution does not disallow the the states from passing laws not listed in the constitution that restrict life and liberty, as the punishments for crime do. Crime is based on harm to others. And what is and who defines "harm" is my point.

Please do me the justice of not parsing my posts out of context. I'm being as fair with you as I can, and I'd appreciate the same from you.

268 posted on 10/28/2006 4:47:53 AM PDT by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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