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To: GoLightly
All these things were up for discussion. I'd argue that our current laws are more just and more fair than they were back then. Our challenge is to appoint judges and elect executives and representatives who can uphold these fair laws properly, and remove ones that are clearly wrong.

We can influence the press here online, as well. Right now, the press is all for post-structuralism, multiculturalism, and the moral relativism that accompanies those two world views. We can show them that most Americans, even immigrants, don't share those relativist values.

57 posted on 04/15/2005 9:47:41 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk
All these things were up for discussion.

They are no longer up for discussion, as they've been codified out, mostly through the federalization of an ever increasing list of things. Strict constructionist judges can not toss out bad law in the same was as activist judges, cuz by definition they would become activist as soon as they ignore the mountian of rulings & caselaw that has been built since the writing of the founding documents. At this point, it would take ammendments to constitutions to un-make "rights" that have been discovered somewhere between the lines in the originals.

I'd argue that our current laws are more just and more fair than they were back then.

Justness or justice & fairness are in the eye of the beholder.

You could have an entire class of children with parents who wished for the teacher to promote Christian ideals in their instruction, but if the class is in a public school, that would not be allowed. OTOH, if you had an entire class of children who's parents wished for the teacher to promote athiest or secular humanist ideals in their instruction, if the class is in a public school... Which group of parents will think the current state of the laws is just & fair? If you can not honestly say both, can they be either just or fair?

79 posted on 04/15/2005 11:19:03 PM PDT by GoLightly
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