[churchillbuff]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

That doesn't give state courts power to strip people of their rights. State courts couldn't order your home confiscated and given to some big political contributor. It that happened, you could appeal to the federal courts for protection and relief.

[Naspino]

The federal courts are an easy way to preserve law in this case; however if they fail then what you have is essentially a government rewriting its constitution to suit its needs without representation of the people. Therefore the people have every right to pick up arms and overthrow the government. If I were Bush I would suspend all federal spending in Nevada with an executive order until it follows its own laws.

[RobbyS]

The first state constitutions--those ratified at the time of the Revolution, gave neither governor nor judiciary much power, because each is an elite institution. In republican government we have legislative supremacy and judges subject to approval by the people or by their representatives. The basic problem is that the legal profession controls all branches of government.

[Pikachu_Dad]

"That doesn't give state courts power to strip people of their rights. State courts couldn't order your home confiscated and given to some big political contributor. It that happened, you could appeal to the federal courts for protection and relief."

WRONG.

They can and do strip people of their homes and give them to big political contributors. They do this under the divorce laws. Under the liberal sponsored laws, property is routinely stripped from men and given to women. Women are the majority voters in this country. They routinely sponsor the liberal party.

No, you can not appeal to the Federal system because they grant the right to hear 'domestic' issues to the State courts.




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