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To: presidio9

A living Constitution is a dead letter.

If we find fault with the Constitution, amend it. Abolish slavery. Prohibit alcohol. Repeal prohibition.

It’s not up to judges to use their opinions and tastes to unilaterally amend the Constitution. To allow them to do so makes a mockery of the principle of rule of law.


18 posted on 03/24/2010 1:39:55 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If we find fault with the Constitution, amend it. Abolish slavery. Prohibit alcohol. Repeal prohibition.

I have wondered if it would be permitted for individual states to remove their ratification of amendments. And if the number of states to pull their approval of an amendment (the 16th perhaps) is three quarters of the whole could the amendment be repealed by that means rather than going through the federal government.

It would make for an interesting states rights battle.

26 posted on 03/24/2010 1:52:02 PM PDT by Not an Obomunist
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