To: smoketree
The Bill of Rights protected the people from the federal government infringing on those rights. States were free to infringe on those rights and many did.
To: robertpaulsen
So you are saying that the federal government NEVER stepped in to enforce any federal laws being broken by the states?
No federal civil rights laws were ever enforced by the federal government?
845 posted on
03/10/2007 12:54:19 PM PST by
smoketree
(the insanity, the lunacy these days.)
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