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To: counterrevolutionary
Please quote the Constitutional provision which forbids a state legislature to pass a law against sodomy.

Maryland Declaration of Rights Article 45:

"This enumeration of Rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the People."

Please quote the state constitutional provision which delegates to the state legislature the power to send hither perverted snoops like J. Edgar Hoover's vice squad.

28 posted on 02/21/2002 5:56:07 PM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
Leaving aside the fact that this is a Massachusetts case, not Maryland:

A) I've dealt with general provisions such as that (e.g., the Ninth Amendment) in previous posts. Yours raises no further issues.

B) As far as I know, neither the Massachusetts State Constitution nor the US Constitution authorizes the Massachusetts legislature to forbid murder. If it is your position that state legislatures only have those powers specifically granted to them, you should begin a campaign to free all the murderers from Massachusetts jails.

C) Massachusetts may well someday put a sodomy protection in their state constitution. But we were discussing provisions of the US Constitution.

D) If you don't like a law, but can't find a constitutional provision forbidding it, why don't you try behaving like a citizen of a republic and attempt to get it repealed through the legislative process?

31 posted on 02/21/2002 6:14:49 PM PST by counterrevolutionary
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