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To: wagglebee
I can't help but notice that your tagline is very inconsistent with your views which totally contradict the principles upon which our Republic was founded.

You mean the principles the federal government was limited to very specific issues and the rest was left to the states? Or the SoCon Huckabee myth that most of the Framers were ministers and what they really meant to establish was a federal government that would deal with every moral concern the citizens of the separate and sovereign states may face?

17 posted on 10/25/2007 5:01:04 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

In your fondness for hyphenated conservatism, what hyphenated label do you prefer for yourself?

You cherry pick conservative tidbits to support an agenda that does not fit in here at all.


20 posted on 10/25/2007 5:11:24 PM PDT by BykrBayb (In memory of my Friend T'wit, who taught me much. ~ Þ)
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To: billbears; BykrBayb; 8mmMauser
You mean the principles the federal government was limited to very specific issues and the rest was left to the states?

Perhaps you are unaware that Amendments to the Constitution are actually PART of the Constitution, they ARE NOT subordinate to it.

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [Emphasis added is mine]
-- Amendment XIV of the Constitution of the United States

Even IF Florida law had allowed Michael Schiavo, Felos and Greer to kill Terri and ignore a Congressional subpoena (which it DOESN'T), the federal government was clearly empowered to prevent them from enforcing a law that is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.

You and the other liberaltarian-anarchists love to throw around the powers that were "reserved to the states," but you do not seem to understand that the Constitution was later AMENDED to address some of these issues.

21 posted on 10/25/2007 5:22:01 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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