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To: Amendment10
There are a lot of these "they got it wrong" arguments floating around but it is really a moot point for anything but trying to stir up emotions. The authors of that same Constitution also granted the power to the SCOTUS to make exactly these determinations of intent.

Option B is an amendment. I would be interested in hearing any proposed amendments you may have.

"Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects."
6 posted on 08/26/2006 7:45:00 PM PDT by ndt
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To: ndt

I cannot believe your comment about the SCOTUS determining intent! :^( Maybe you haven't read my other posts yet.

Regardless what Justice Black wanted everybody to think about Jefferson's "wall of separation," I've posted three Jefferson extracts where Jefferson acknowledges the power of the states to address religious issues in some way. In fact, two of the extracts reference how the Founders wrote the 1st and 10th Amendments in part to delegate government power to address religious issues uniquely to the state governments.

So I don't know where you're coming from with respect to defending the USSC's determination of the intentions of the Founders given they obviously got the wires crossed big time with Jefferson.

In fact, note that regardless that secularists will argue that the USSC has the power to essentially read anything they want to into the Constitution in the name of case precedent, they ignore that Justice Marshall set the precedent that judges are bound by the Constitution.

"Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument." --Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury v. Madison 1803. http://tinyurl.com/qf2vw


21 posted on 08/26/2006 10:26:29 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ndt
[The authors of that same Constitution also granted the power to the SCOTUS to make exactly these determinations of intent.]

But not to change the intent, which the radical left judges do at the behest of arrogant elitist politicians who love power and would destroy the original intent of the founders of the constitution.
Kelo is a bell tower of the madness of the left wing in it's intent to overturn the God inspired rights of the Bill of Rights; a Christian nation is becoming a communist nation under the left wing fascism of atheistic Christ and Jew haters.
150 posted on 09/02/2006 6:54:49 AM PDT by kindred ( Ro.5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.)
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