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To: PapaNew
A better bill would be to repeal the Incorporation Doctrine as unconstitutional and thus put the first ten Amendments back on their feet.

Congress has no authority to force the courts to adopt a particular interpretation of the Constitution. Except of course by the nuclear options of restricting jurisdiction or impeaching judges.

Neither of which is going to happen.

No such bill or of the type Cruz proposes has any chance at all of passing. Cruz is grandstanding.

20 posted on 04/25/2015 11:53:45 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
Congress has no authority to force the courts to adopt a particular interpretation of the Constitution.

Who says? Certainly not the Constitution. Research into the intent and understanding of the Founders and Ratifiers shows they expected all three branches to participate in constitutional knowledge and interpretation.

The Supremacy Clause does not say the rulings of the Supreme Court are the law of the land but the "Constitution and the Laws of the United States which shall be made IN PURSUANCE thereof" (Art VI Sec 2).

23 posted on 04/25/2015 12:07:16 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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