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To: logi_cal869
Ummm...what’s a good-for-nothing ‘representative’ going to do about this when it’s carved in stone in the US Constitution?

The USSC has a proven history of hatred of the fourth amendment — and the first, and the second, and the sixth, and the ninth, and the tenth.

99 posted on 03/24/2014 6:47:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
The USSC has a proven history of hatred of the fourth amendment — and the first, and the second, and the sixth, and the ninth, and the tenth.

There's "precedent" for that, too -- Alexander Hamilton hated the very idea of the Bill of Rights, attacked it in The Federalist, and had he prevailed in the court of opinion, we'd have had none.

It was Madison who was the guy big enough to cross the aisle to the Anti-Federalists who predicted all the government abuses we deplore, and write the Bill of Rights "properly" i.e. competently. Hamilton OTOH always predicted that government attorneys would eventually lawyer-talk every amendment down, leaving the People worse off than before -- "we talked about that, and no, you don't have a right to your papers under the Fourth Amendment, so shut up".

Alexander Hamilton's alternative was to argue that every right not invaded by the law was reserved in all cases ..... how long do you think we'd have lasted in court, making that argument? Thanks, Alexander.

Good job, Aaron. Thanks.

101 posted on 03/24/2014 6:56:45 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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