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To: lugsoul
Oh, Spiff. The 10th refers to rights NOT set forth in the Constitution - or reserved to the people under the 9th. It does not give the states the right to trump the Federal Government on the issue of interpreting the U.S. Constitution. If you think it does, please indicate where.

States came first, Federal (not National) government came later. You've certainly got things backwards. When you can understand the difference between a National government and a Federal government, you'll begin to get it.

229 posted on 07/01/2003 7:49:15 PM PDT by Spiff (Liberalism is a mental illness - a precursor disease to terminal Socialism.)
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To: Spiff
Oh, what came first governs? I guess the Indian nations can decide for themselves what the Constitution means, and the rest of us are bound by it.

The Constitution created a Federal government. Under your view, we can have (at least) 50 different views of what the Constitution means, all equally valid. Yeah, sure, that's right.

243 posted on 07/01/2003 8:04:01 PM PDT by lugsoul
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To: Spiff
Memebers from the states created the constitution. So how do you figure that the federal government came first?
265 posted on 07/01/2003 8:31:30 PM PDT by Revel
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