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To: itsahoot

Then shouldn’t the 14th amendment be re-written to correct the misinterpretation?


25 posted on 05/26/2009 7:08:48 AM PDT by rhombus
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The misinterpretation came from the ludicrous Wong Kim Ark ruling. The Court refused to consider the actual intent of the 14th Amendment's Framers and also ignored the Court's prior rulings in the Slaughterhouse and Elk vs. Wilkins cases.
57 posted on 05/26/2009 10:54:12 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: rhombus
Then shouldn’t the 14th amendment be re-written to correct the misinterpretation?

The Supreme can reinterpret and overturn itself. Of course Congress has more power than they ever use for that purpose.

Sadly I think all the crazy court decisions, are really what congress desires, but this way they don't have to take the heat.

Remember we have recently heard some Governors claim they will follow the courts rulings, when clearly they had means to resist the decisions.

I guess most of them lost their nerve when George Wallace was threatened with arrest on the capital steps.

George stood up for the wrong reason, but the precedent was set, so here we are.

74 posted on 05/26/2009 1:11:43 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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