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To: AndyJackson
I suspect, however, it is not quite so simple as that.

And you would be correct, insofar that the Court has spent the last 50 years reading into the constitution things that aren't there. So yes, this probably clashes with a whole bunch of invented constitutional provisons - just not with any of the provisions the exist in the actual written constitution.

20 posted on 10/10/2005 9:48:12 AM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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Darn it, I have to cut out for a while (parent/teacher conference). I'll look forward to reading more when I return.


22 posted on 10/10/2005 9:50:05 AM PDT by conservativebabe (proud to be a vitriolic hyperconservative)
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To: Rodney King
the Court has spent the last 50 years reading into the constitution things that aren't there

Actually over 200 years, going back to the Federalist papers that argue about what and what isn't in the constitution.

There are a lot of different schools of construction of the constitution. No legitimate school starts from the premise that it is easy, however. Even the "originalist" Scalia is an example of a first rate mind that finds it hard, and even sometimes can still get it wrong.

24 posted on 10/10/2005 9:51:56 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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