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To: EternalVigilance

So you’d have a government where every officer has to decide constitutionality? So if the Obama “truth minister” decided banning right wing radio was constitutional, that’d be ok?


78 posted on 02/04/2011 5:28:58 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
So you’d have a government where every officer has to decide constitutionality?

Of course.

You'd have a government where only a few unelected judges get to determine what the oath means?

Frankly, that's exactly what you have now, which is exactly why we're in the trouble we're in.

82 posted on 02/04/2011 5:37:55 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Is a child a person? Of course. Which is why we MUST ban abortion NOW.)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure

To come to the conclusion that you have,

you have to, like leftists do, reject the idea of

objective truth and objective rules.

Only those issues where the Constitution, and the original writings of the founders, are not addressed are “up for interpretation”. Everything else should be referred to as THE meaning. The original meaning is the only meaning, subject to amendment through the amendment process.


86 posted on 02/04/2011 5:47:50 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
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