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To: cotton1706

No, it isn’t fine. What if the people decide to pass laws that order blacks to sit at the back of the bus, or to be hanged whenever found in certain areas of the town? The Constitution is supposed to place some things beyond the reach of local sentiments, or even elections.


8 posted on 02/03/2013 9:15:21 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: coloradan

“The Constitution is supposed to place some things beyond the reach of local sentiments”

The 10th Amendment SPECIFICALLY places just about everything beyond the reach of federal autocratic sentiments.


14 posted on 02/03/2013 9:22:42 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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