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To: Antoninus
Hmmm...Won't SCROTUS now simply declare a Constitutional Marriage Amendment unconstitutional?
60 posted on 06/26/2003 7:43:52 PM PDT by Polycarp (Free Republic: Where Apatheism meets "Conservatism.")
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To: Polycarp
Hmmm...Won't SCROTUS now simply declare a Constitutional Marriage Amendment unconstitutional?

Well, assuming the constitution is still in effect, they can't. Such an amendment would become part of the constitution. Indeed, they'd have to defend such an amendment and turn away any laws that attempt to infringe upon it.
85 posted on 06/26/2003 8:05:27 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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