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To: Darksheare
The states cannot trample on the bill of rights.

Nothing in the Constitution gives the feds the power to enforce the first ten amendments. The states are limited only by those limitations expressly enumerated in the Constitution proper and the 14th Amendment forbidding state segregation laws against blacks. So you are inventing federal powers not in the Constitution if you say that the feds may enforce it upon the states other than those exceptions.

49 posted on 05/10/2014 1:50:40 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Doesn’t require fed power.
By consent of the governed applies downhill as well.


52 posted on 05/10/2014 3:09:00 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: PapaNew

And are you really seriously stating that the bill of rights doesn’t apply to the states as well?
Are you seriously stating that the states can trample on the bill of rights?
Because that is what you are saying.


53 posted on 05/10/2014 3:10:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: PapaNew
Nothing in the Constitution gives the feds the power to enforce the first ten amendments.

That's incorrect, friend. The Constitution declares itself the Supreme Law of the Land. It vests execution of the law in the Executive and grants the Judiciary power to decide all cases in law and equity that arise under the Constitution.

54 posted on 05/10/2014 3:10:45 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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