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To: MamaTexan

So your belief was that congress could only be as strict in its laws for the territories as the most lenient state?

180 posted on 02/13/2009 1:21:16 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)

To: Bubba Ho-Tep

So your belief was that congress could only be as strict in its laws for the territories as the most lenient state?

No, only that congress could only be as equal in its laws for the territories as that in any of the States.

183 posted on 02/13/2009 2:06:12 PM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT an administrative, collective, corporate, legal, political or public ~entity~!!!)

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