Congress dids enACT the 14th Amendment getting at least 2/3rds of the majority vote in both congressional houses, and it then moved to the states where it did get 3/4ths of the states to approve the Amendment.
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Posted on 10/13/2010 3:04:13 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
On consideration of the Petition for Extraordinary Relief in the Nature of a Writ of Mandamus and Application for a Stay of Proceedings, the petition is DENIED.
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Act meaning ACTION.
If you are going to pick semantic nits then you better pick the right ones.
Constitutional Amendments and their development ARE acts of congress. Not all acts of congress become law. Not all proposed Amendments to the constitution get ratified.
These are acts of congress. Another way to say this is: These are actions of congress.
Step back and take a freaking chill pill. Semantic nitpicking on the internet will make you insane.
Don't worry... honesty does win in the end.
You have helped people.
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Read it and weep ....
Link to: Copy of the First Acts of Congress with Bill of Rights
“Semantic nitpicking on the internet will make you insane.”
It takes an insane person to think a Constitutional Amendment is an Act of Congress. Acts of Congress are passed by and carry the authority of Congress. A Constitutional Amendment, once ratified, takes priority OVER all acts of Congress.
This is not semantic nit-picking. Opening the door in the Senate is not an Act of Congress, and neither is a Constitutional Amendment. And it is not possible to carry on a discussion with someone who cannot understand something so basic...it would be like discussing electronic warfare with a two year old.
“act of Congress Law Definition n
A statute formally enacted by Congress in accordance with the powers granted to it by the United States Constitution.
Webster’s New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. “
http://law.yourdictionary.com/act-of-congress
“An act of Congress (or Act of Congress) is a statute enacted by government with a legislature named “Congress,” such as the United States and the Philippines.
“In the United States, acts of Congress are designated as either public laws, relating to the general public, or private laws, relating to specific institutions or individuals. Since 1957, all acts of Congress have been designated as “Public Law X-Y” or “Private Law X-Y,” where X is the number of the Congress and Y refers to the sequential order of the bill (when it was enacted).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Congress
Act meaning Action. ie function of congress. Kapeche?
No weeping required. The Acts of Congress in the book you cite are setting up the government IAW the Constitution.
Did you notice “Acts of Congress WITH Bill of Rights”, not INCLUDING?
Act of Congress is a phrase with a specific legal meaning. If you don’t understand the difference between an Act of Congress & an Amendment to the Constitution, then there is no use trying to discuss law with you...you are not qualified to hold up your end.
Of course, most birthers have problems with understanding law, and/or English...
Believe whatever fantasy you want, but you won’t ever get far in a Court arguing that an Act of Congress includes Constitutional Amendments.
Do you know how the Constitution is amended?
Dude, you are hilarious and ridiculous. I show you where the amendments are INCLUDED in a book of the First Acts of Congress, published in 1789, and you’re trying to get into a tangential discussion about how the Constitution is amended. If you think have an argument, make it. Please, keep the comedy coming.
Congress dids enACT the 14th Amendment getting at least 2/3rds of the majority vote in both congressional houses, and it then moved to the states where it did get 3/4ths of the states to approve the Amendment.
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Very well said and I am in complete agreement.
Man, you are so arrogant... It makes me wonder how anyone puts up with you irl.
What part of “congress can take many actions” do you not get? How about this: “congress will consider acting upon the president’s suggestion” or “congress chose not to act on the recommendations of ....”
Save your bs. Mr. Rogers. Your zip is down. And you still have your outside shoes on.
There are more than one use for the word act. When those two meanings get put into the same discussion, confusion results.
If you can’t get THAT simple point, then do us and yourself a favor... Unplug your computer and put it back into the box it came it. Return it immediately. You are not smart enough to own a computer.
And here's another third-party for Mrs. Rogers benefit to see someone else referring to the 14th amendment among a list of Acts of Congress
"Soon, Congress began to pass powerful new legislation directing the course of reconstruction, including the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, both designed to protect the rights and improve the conditions of blacks in the South. Johnson vetoed both measures, but Congress overrode both vetoes and the bills became law. Most importantly, in June 1866, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment, explicitly granting blacks state and federal citizenship, prohibiting any state from depriving "any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law" and further prohibiting states from denying any person "the equal protection of the laws." "
You are out of line MT. And you owe El Sordo a sincere apology. You are a damn good think and you do good work, but by G-d you leap to illogical conclusions at times.
You owe him an apology. And a sincere one at that.
You remind me of Sarah Palin. A fighter.
Thanks bushpilot1. That’s a compliment that gave me a great big warm fuzzy!!!!!! Thank you!
Where did the 14th originate?
Why I do believe it originated in Congress through the passage by both houses, their ratification of the state legislatures & the signing by the President. If that is NOT a law, then, yes, I do not know what a law is.
FYI, if an Amendment is NOT a law, then does that mean I no longer have to pay personal taxes per the 16th Amendment? Gee, I sure hope so cuz that would surely make mine & many others day!
IOW..do you know how idiotic that last statement of yours was?
“I have argued the Consolidation question,, from the history of our States at the declaration of Independence—at the Confederation 15th Nov. 1777, ratified by Congress July 9,1778— trom the history of the Convention in 1787—from the view taken of it in the “Federalist”—and from the known technical meaning among us of the political phrases used in relation to confederated States.
1 proceed to other circumstances that exhibit the federal or federative character of our present constitutional Union, and that show it to he a compact, hetween independent States, united for the common defence and general welfare, to he pursued by the means appointed in the trust-power, called the Constitution.
This is “the Constitution of the United States.” A State, is a nation: a distinct independent political community; wherein the people inhabiting a given territory, have united for the purpose of living under a government of their own choice.
Several States may unite together from a common motive, and for particular purposes, without renouncing their independence in any other respect, as the Lycian, the Acbaian, the Amphyctrionic combinations among the ancients: the Hanse towns, the Swiss Cantons, the United Provinces among the moderns: so the Congress at Rochshadt, Liobau, Vienna, &c. recently. See Vattel L 1, ch. 1, sect. 10.”
“That States may enter into a federal republic,and put some restraint on the exercise of their previous rights of sovereignty, without any violence heing ottered to the sovereignty of each memher of the compact, is expressly stated by Vatte), Book 1, ch. 1, sec. 10,”
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