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To: lewisglad

Unless the state legislatures have more fortitude than most, it’s a symbolic protest. Pelosi made provisions to go around the Govs if needed:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187142/posts


21 posted on 02/20/2009 3:30:57 PM PST by bigbob (-)
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To: bigbob

And doesn’t that go over the Constitution, as to states rights?


59 posted on 02/20/2009 3:59:27 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: bigbob; gidget7
The honorable governors reservations are as symbolic as he Constitution

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Simple congressional legislation does not supersede the 10th amendment.

157 posted on 02/22/2009 8:43:23 AM PST by TeleStraightShooter (Barack Hugo Obama - has he ever criticized Hugo Chavez?)
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