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Supreme Court Study Finds New Gun Facts
gunlawupdates@gunlaws.com
| 17 August, 2003
| Alan Korwin
Posted on 08/17/2003 8:29:26 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: ExSoldier
Didn't Plessy v Ferguson reverse the Ruling in Dredd Scott? No, the postwar amendments did that.
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posted on
08/19/2003 5:56:14 AM PDT
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William Terrell
(People can exist without government but government can't exist without people)
To: ninenot
Sorry...I missed the Hat-Trick
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08/19/2003 6:01:43 AM PDT
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Hat-Trick
(Only a month away from NHL training camps!)
To: William Terrell
"We may have already seen an example of that. Ashcroft just recently changed the governments "policy" to one of individual right, which kept (I forget the case, think it was an appeals court in Louisiana I think, restraining order violation) from being appealed."
That would be the "Emerson" case out of Texas, which was appealed to the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. The 5th Circuit ruled that the 2d Amendment was an individual right.
To: ought-six
Yes. Well, the government was on the collective right side of the issue, and had promised to appeal any decision away from that position to the supremes, which would have nailed the issue at the Supreme Court level.
Ashcroft changed the position as an administration "policy" statement and avoided an appeal. If he would have appealed, the issue would have been settled, and most federal laws regulating firearms under Art 1, Sec 8 Cl 3, and many state laws, would have vanished. The "policy" change can be reversed at any time by this or any other administration, whereas a SC ruling would have taken a constitutional amendment repealing the 2nd.
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08/19/2003 9:43:40 AM PDT
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William Terrell
(People can exist without government but government can't exist without people)
To: marktwain
Thanks for the post,,,
On my way to purchase a copy of this book,,, should be interesting
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08/21/2003 11:58:09 AM PDT
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TYVets
("An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlien & me)
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