Posted on 01/17/2007 11:16:36 AM PST by radar101
When parties from all camps can't agree on what the words mean, let alone what was intended by the proposition, it only proves what a piece of garbage Prop 73 really was. No one can know what the voters actually thought they were voting for. Some support retroactivity, some don't. The flawed language was pointed out before the election--discrepancy after discrepancy.
They should throw out the whole darn Proposition and start over with responsibily written legislation. Else they will just spend a lifetime in court, all on the taxpayer dime.
The is a time limit on reclassifying a form of homicide not previously considered capital murder as capital murder and asking for the death penalty: the moment the law is passed extending backward.
So there is a time limit on any law under our Constitution, and it runs backward in time: you can't declare criminal or up the penalty for acts commited before a statute took effect. What part of "no ex post facto law" don't you understand?
The good tyrants promise always sounds common-sensical in the context in which it is proposed.
If we get rid of the prohibition on ex post facto laws by fiat, maybe by fiat some future legislature or state AG will decide that bills of attainder are fine, too, and pass a bill of attainder against all persons posting on internet forums with the screen name nmh.
Wasn't Jerry Brown found not qualified to be Attorney General? I have not heard of a court ruling justifying his eligibility.
Do it for the KIDDIES, for a change!
REALLY look out for them instead of just pretending you care.
Yup, you're right. Constitution and everything predating, post dating, judicial decisions and all the same be damned, I FEEEEEEEEL that nothing else matters but how I FEEEEEL about this.
Read your constitution and then get back to the adults, FRiend. Some folks just FAIL to understand that different folks done got different ideas. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are downright repulsive. That's WHY America is as great as it is, DESPITE the single-issue folk. Discussion of all the different ideas is WELCOME, rather than proscribed.
It might also help to learn how to spell, or at least use the spell check available.
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