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To: HamiltonJay
“You violate a state law that is also a federal law, you have 2 completely different governments charging you independently”

It is good to see the Supreme Court recognize that states are sovereign and have never given up their sovereignty, except for those few, limited, enumerated grants of authority to the federal government mentioned in the Constitution.

The framers of the Constitution, however, specifically wanted to protect individuals from being retried, and retried, and retried for the “same offense” because of their experience with English authorities.

Now those protections - like other protections in the Bill of Rights - are being swept away by wise guys with enough language skills to run circles around five year olds with persuasive reasoning that a man is a woman.

66 posted on 06/22/2022 2:32:34 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

That’s because, at the time of the constitutional creation, the federal government’s laws would be those laws binding the states with minimal laws affecting individuals because they all fell under state laws. (And even then would’ve probably only applied to those crimes committed across state lines)

It wasn’t until the federal bureaucracy took off that it was used as a Cudgel.


68 posted on 06/22/2022 2:38:55 PM PDT by Skywise
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