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To: CrabTree
"Please give me a couple of examples about when the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution as saying things that it plainly does not, when doing such has increased the power of the Federal government."

Here is one, a particularly egregious one:

Texas v. White (74 US 700). The state of Texas sought an injunction to restrain the defendants from using Texas Indemnity Bonds paid to them by Texas after secession for supplies for the Confederate States of America and to obtain the restoration of fifty-one of the bonds. The defense argued that Texas, by seceding from the Union and later waging a war against the United States, had lost the status of a state in the Union and therefore had no right to sue in the United States Supreme Court. The state of Texas argued that the Union was indestructable and that Texas's status in the Union therefore had been unchanged by the war. In a 5 to 3 decision issued on April 15, 1869 the Supreme Court found for the state of Texas. Chief Justice Chase, writing for the majority, wrote:

"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into a indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The Act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the Union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.

51 posted on 01/04/2002 10:14:41 AM PST by Aurelius
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To: Non-Sequitur
Please see my post #51.

Thanks for your help.

55 posted on 01/04/2002 10:32:46 AM PST by Aurelius
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