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To: muawiyah
The meaning of the 2nd is quite clear and the SCOTUS didn't quite belly up to the bar.

Go suck eggs. You just got done ripping the conservative SCOTUS justices for being progressive about enforcing the Fifth, and now you say they didn't go far enough with Heller - when both deal with clearly enureated rights.

Like I said, no sense of shame.

83 posted on 04/23/2011 10:56:02 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
Two different rulings. Both have federal and state implications. Always siding with the state against the federales is a Conservative principle. Always siding with the individual against the state or the federales is a conservative principle.

In Kelo the court sided with the state against the federales. In Heller the court sided with the individual against the federales.

WHOOPS!! What about the state? Well, they didn't do it ~ did just a half job. The rest of it awaited other lawsuits.

In the end states where the public didn't want their state to have the power CT claimed in takings, they acted to limit that power. Most states already limited the power of the states. CT still hasn't fixed their problem. Apparently the people of CT think the government should be able to force you to sell your property to them and then give it to a different private party.

The tenth amendment is intact in the Kelo situation. It's intact in Heller. At the same time the state constitutions of many states with restrictive gun laws say the same thing as the federal constitution ~ so they can be forced to bend to Heller or son of Heller in later suits.

Too many people imagine that conservative thinking is best exercised through the use of the power of the federal government to force states to adhere to a preconceived conclusion.

85 posted on 04/23/2011 11:13:25 AM PDT by muawiyah
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