To: Sir Francis Dashwood
It is what all the states agreed to when admitted into the Union...
So what? The reason why we don't have 231 constitutional amendments, is because we allow matters to be decided by individual states, rather than imposing a national solution through the consent of 3/4 of the states.
43 posted on
02/18/2007 2:59:13 PM PST by
LtdGovt
("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: LtdGovt
we allow matters to be decided by individual states, rather than imposing a national solution through the consent of 3/4 of the states.No we don't... 98 U.S. 145, REYNOLDS v. UNITED STATES, 98 U.S. 145, October Term, 1878.
To: LtdGovt
So what? The reason why we don't have 231 constitutional amendments, is because we allow matters to be decided by individual states, rather than imposing a national solution through the consent of 3/4 of the states.So then, can any state, at it's citizen's discretion, via voting polls or thru their representatives -Confiscate all firearms from the public? Declare 'atheism' the official state religion? Abolish the press?
129 posted on
02/18/2007 3:32:27 PM PST by
jla
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