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To: SmithL

Federal courts have no jurisdiction over state Constitutions. That a federal court will even hear the case is a single finger salute to our federal Constitution and to state sovereignty.


9 posted on 08/19/2009 1:11:27 PM PDT by Jacquerie (We live in a judicial tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: Jacquerie
Federal courts have no jurisdiction over state Constitutions.

Not exactly true.

10 posted on 08/19/2009 1:13:29 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Jacquerie
Federal courts have no jurisdiction over state Constitutions. That a federal court will even hear the case is a single finger salute to our federal Constitution and to state sovereignty.

Nonsense. Article VI of the U.S. Constitution says that the U.S. Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land... any Thing in the Constitution... of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

13 posted on 08/19/2009 1:19:57 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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