To: Miss Marple
The law is constitutional because the Supreme Court says it is, regardless of our opinions. Hardly.
Abortion is not truly a constitutional right, is it?
Of course it isn't; the court decided wrongly in that case, and millions have suffered the consequences.
The fact that the court issues a hair-brained decision upholding a blatantly unconsitutional law doesn't make it constitutional; it just makes it legally enforceable.
1,076 posted on
12/10/2003 11:27:21 AM PST by
B Knotts
(Go 'Nucks!)
To: B Knotts
Well, since abortions are legal in all states and no one is being arrested, I have to assume that they ARE constitutional, until either an amendment or a court decision rules otherwise. Are they right? No. Do I oppose them? Yes. But until things change, they are constitutional.
Slavery was constitutional until the Emancipation Proclamation and attendant amendments to the Constitution. Was it right? No. Do I oppose slavery? Yes. But until laws were enacted and the Constitution was amended, it WAS Constitutional.
To: B Knotts
The fact that the court issues a hair-brained decision upholding a blatantly unconsitutional law doesn't make it constitutional; it just makes it legally enforceable. (I know one guy here who, if the court ruled that he was a potato, would swear it was entirely constitutional for the government to make french fries out of him... ;>)
1,119 posted on
12/10/2003 11:42:19 AM PST by
Who is John Galt?
("The Constitution won't even make a good door stop. " - WhiskeyPapa, 10-08-2002)
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