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To: Red Badger
You cannot use one part of the constitution to diminish another.

Interesting legal philosophy.

By your reasoning then the 21st amendment cannot diminish the 18th amendment. I know it's early but I need a drink. But then according to your legal philosophy I can't have one....

You have rights but you can be deprived of them by due process of the law. Furthermore, no right is absolute. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater and call it free speech. Human sacrifice and "honor killings" are not tolerated as religious practices.

26 posted on 12/22/2008 8:31:29 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

By “use” I meant “interpret”, not the process of amending the constitution.

If you use the “To regulate commerce” clause of the constitution to ban the ownership of guns because guns are produced commercially and are shipped across state lines, then the 2nd amendment is useless............


27 posted on 12/22/2008 8:39:12 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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