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To: musanon
Article VI. -

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Nothing in Article 3 gives the SCOTUS veto power on Constitutional Amendments. To claim otherwise is to peer into the penumbra of Saturn and find an oligarchy which replaces a constitutional republic.

244 posted on 07/11/2005 5:37:42 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
The Constitution and its Amendments are the "Law of the Land". -- Both statute law, - and Constitutional law, - are subject to judicial review.

The USSC has the power of judicial review for all cases arising before it. [See Art. III]

The Constitutionality of the 18th was questioned, and they reviewed that question. - Sadly, they opined that a repugnant act of prohibition was Constitutional, contrary to all of our principles of liberty.
Fortunately, the people ignored them, and overruled by passing the 21st.

Nothing in Article 3 gives the SCOTUS veto power on Constitutional Amendments. To claim otherwise is to peer into the penumbra of Saturn and find an oligarchy which replaces a constitutional republic.

No one here has claimed "veto power". -- Judaical review by the SCOTUS is an opinion. Such opinions can only be enforced by other branches of government, - fed, state or local.

247 posted on 07/11/2005 6:59:39 AM PDT by musanon
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