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To: Roscoe
So you mean it is now Constitutional for the local governments to abuse Constitutioal rights? Wonder when that happened.
51 posted on 12/15/2001 7:34:29 PM PST by rwfromkansas
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To: rwfromkansas
So you mean it is now Constitutional for the local governments to abuse Constitutioal rights? Wonder when that happened.

Since they wrote the Bill of Rights. The BoR never restricted local or state governments. It was not until after the War Between the States and the ratification of the 14th Amendment that the BoR began to be applied to governments "inferior" to the federal government.

460 posted on 12/17/2001 6:15:58 PM PST by Chemist_Geek
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