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To: Roscoe
Not at all.

Okay, you say the States have the power to truncate my enumerated rights. Let's not even talk 9A for the moment.

Your turn: Cite a modern example, or a case, in which someone's rights under the Bill of Rights were breached by a state law, and the Supreme Court signed off on it.

315 posted on 05/16/2002 2:51:39 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Your turn: Cite a modern example, or a case, in which someone's rights under the Bill of Rights were breached by a state law, and the Supreme Court signed off on it.

I can't cite the cases off the top of my head, but I remember from law school that the Supreme Court has only "selectively incorporated" the Bill of Rights into the 14th Amendment. Most of the BOR has been applied to the states, but the right to indictment by a grand jury (5th Amendment) has been held not to apply to the states, nor does the 7th amendment (right to jury trial in civil cases).

324 posted on 05/16/2002 3:06:09 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
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