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To: spunkets

####The article is ridiculous.####


No. It hits the nail on the head.


#####The words of the Amendment and the action taken by Congress under the Amendment(18 USC 24Xs) speak for themselves.#####


So when did Congress, exercising its authority to enforce the provisions of the 14th through appropriate legislation, ever hold it to enforce a rigid interpretation of the Establishment Clause against the states?


210 posted on 01/09/2006 12:20:24 PM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: puroresu
"So when did Congress, exercising its authority to enforce the provisions of the 14th through appropriate legislation, ever hold it to enforce a rigid interpretation of the Establishment Clause against the states? "

When it passed the civil rights act in the '60s.

235 posted on 01/09/2006 12:43:39 PM PST by spunkets
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