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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Go, Arthur, go!!
805 posted on 08/22/2003 5:26:20 PM PDT by viaveritasvita
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To: rwfromkansas; Arthur Wildfire! March; All
From the Federalist.com Digest a day or so ago....

...And the judicial activists who ruled in this case know what it is about, too; 11th U.S. Circuit Court Appellate Judge Ed Carnes wrote, "If Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument were allowed to stand, it
would mean a massive revision of how the courts have interpreted the First Amendment for years." Of course, it is Carnes and his Leftjudiciary minions who are "above the law" by rendering verdicts based on their opinion rather than the Constitution.

The First Amendment's restriction on the central government reads simply, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."

...This current practice of "constitutional interpretation" by judicial activists is tantamount to incremental tyranny by what Thomas Jefferson rightly feared would become "the Despotic branch."

In the Federalist Papers, the definitive exposition of the
Constitution's original intent, James Madison, our Constitution's author, stated, "Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution. ... The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and
defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."

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806 posted on 08/22/2003 5:36:30 PM PDT by viaveritasvita
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