[DiogenesLamp]

It was the later amendments that gave the federal government near limitless power, especially the ones forced upon the nation by force after the civil war.

Another person who gets it. Ping to you other guys who don't want to believe it.

[Tau Food]

In post 4, TexasFreeper2009 wrote: "It was the later amendments that gave the federal government near limitless power, especially the ones forced upon the nation by force after the civil war."

In post 17, DiogenesLamp wrote: "Another person who gets it. Ping to you other guys who don't want to believe it."

In this post, Tau Food writes: I don't agree. I don't think that those post Civil War amendments granted the federal government "near limitless power" and, for example, I don't think that the 14th Amendment granted the federal courts with the power to find that there exists a Constitutional right to homosexual marriage.

Are you sure that the right to homosexual marriage was envisaged by those who adopted the 14th Amendment? Isn't it possible that courts have exceeded their power and that they have misinterpreted that amendment? ;-)