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To: WildHorseCrash
It's a way of violating the First Amendment

Strange, because the very same people who wrote the First Amendment didn't seem to have a problem with any of these things.

Seems to me either you or they don't understand what the 1st Amendment menas. I'll go with the Founding Fathers, thank you very much.

156 posted on 11/17/2005 6:56:47 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
Strange, because the very same people who wrote the First Amendment didn't seem to have a problem with any of these things.

So? First, there is the small matter of the 14th Amendment. Second, who gives a damn. I'm not an original intent theorist. I am a textualist with a strong respect for stare decisis where reasonable interpretations are made. I don't care what those that passed the act intended, I'm not going to worry about their feelings, I care about what they did; what they wrote.

Seems to me either you or they don't understand what the 1st Amendment menas. I'll go with the Founding Fathers, thank you very much.

No, I understand both. You just have a very shallow and ill-informed notion of legal thinking.

164 posted on 11/18/2005 5:36:32 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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