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To: Common Tator

Are you a DEMORAT? Of COURSE the Constitution had "finite" meaning......JEEEZ!


15 posted on 08/20/2004 6:26:52 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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To: TexConfederate1861
Are you a DEMORAT? Of COURSE the Constitution had "finite" meaning......JEEZ

The finite meaning went out the door when neither Thomas Jefferson or James Madison(the Constitution's author) challenged the ruling in Marbury Vs Madison in 1803.

In that decision the court ruled that the Constitution had no "finite" meaning. That decision written by Chief Justice Marshall ruled the constitution meant what ever 5 of the nine justices said it meant that day. The reserved the right to decide it meant somthing else tomorrow.

Since that time there have been hundreds of decisions by the surpreme court that violate the "finite" meaning of the Document. Many rulings have created provisions that are not even mentioned in the document .. The Constitution expressly says that the court has no jurisdiction over things not in the constitution. To get around that he court just says provisions exist even when they don't. Abortion is an exmaple. The word abortion does not exist in the text of the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled the word was in the penumbra of the constitution. Look up the word Penumbra to get a clue.

To claim that the constitution has "finite" meaning is to just ingore the two hundred and one years that have transpired since it last had "finite" meaning.

If you had ever studied history, you would know the truth of what I say.

Does the fact that the Supreme Court ruled in 1803 that the man who wrote the Constitution (James Madison) did not konw what it meant.. give you a clue?... Didn't think So!!


18 posted on 08/20/2004 6:47:26 AM PDT by Common Tator
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