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To: Boot Hill
Read my actual words:

Chief Justice Marshall argued just that point in 1803, quite logically, in Marbury v Madison.
-- In essence he made the point that our original Constitution/Bill of Rights were based on fundamental individual liberties, and that if acts were passed repugnant to those basic principles, they would be null & void, having violated the spirit of the social contract, the constitution itself.
Thus, an amendment nullifying the 2nd would void the entire basis of our republic.
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You don't understand? -- Specify what & why, and make a counterpoint.
61 posted on 12/06/2002 4:57:09 PM PST by tpaine
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To: tpaine
tpaine asks:   "You don't understand? -- Specify what & why."

Do you mean to say by your words, that such an amendment would void the entire Constitution itself?

--Boot Hill

69 posted on 12/06/2002 5:32:34 PM PST by Boot Hill
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