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To: Amendment10
we've got two historical extracts where Jefferson acknowledges the unique, 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.

Not only the 10th, but the 12th as well.

I think one of the biggest perversions of the Constitution is the 'supremacy clause'. Here's what Madison said about the limited power of the federal/national government;

However true, therefore, it may be, that the judicial department is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial, as well as the other departments, hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.
James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions

It would make perfect sense, because the 3 branches of government are separate, but EQUAL.

185 posted on 09/03/2006 7:41:57 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am NOT a 'legal entity'...nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: MamaTexan
Not only the 10th, but the 12th 9th as well.
186 posted on 09/03/2006 7:50:31 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am NOT a 'legal entity'...nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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