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To: liberallarry
Your belief [that liberals are messing with the bedrock] is certainly reasonable. Over the years the Constitution has been made to say many things...and many things have been made legal which were once illegal and vice-versa.

Blackstone presumes an authority that is above the law. Lose that ... assert that man's law is "supreme" ... and the bedrock is at least disturbed, if not disregarded.

122 posted on 07/09/2005 4:51:20 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
Blackstone presumes an authority that is above the law

The problem is that we must judge ourselves. People have made as many claims about what the authority above the law (if such exists) says as about what the law says.

I prefer to look at the law as part of a system which controls the power of the state. Our way of doing things has been judged by history to be extremely good compared to other ways. Whether it will continue to be so, whether we can adapt to whatever new circumstances we must face, is always unknown.

141 posted on 07/09/2005 5:25:40 PM PDT by liberallarry
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