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.
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12/06/2002 4:57:09 PM PST by
tpaine
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
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