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To: Non-Sequitur

Nice bit of legalese in that circular logic which made Marshall famous.

The 10th Amendment didn’t need the word “expressly” to retain meaning and force anymore than it needed the phrase, “this means you”.

It declares that the powers ‘not delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people’, without equivocation, or condition.

Marshall was a traitor for imagining that one was needed.


664 posted on 09/04/2007 10:42:49 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Maelstrom
Marshall was a traitor for imagining that one was needed.

Judging just by how you use the term 'traitor' I'd have to say that Chief Justice Marshall's understanding of the Constitution beats the hell out of your understanding of it.

666 posted on 09/04/2007 10:48:15 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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