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To: autumnraine
So you think that it would be ok for say, Oregon, to outlaw guns?

Ok? No. But in theory, they have the power to do so via their State Constitution. The people of Oregon have the sovereign power to surrender various and sundry of their rights to their State if they so choose. That principal is the basis of all our constitutional law, federal and state.

25 posted on 12/11/2009 6:44:59 AM PST by Heliand
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To: Heliand
The people of Oregon have the sovereign power to surrender various and sundry of their rights to their State if they so choose. That principal is the basis of all our constitutional law, federal and state.

Nonsense. The people of Oregon have *no* right to surrender any individual's *natural* rights, regardless of the popularity of that right. The basis of the Bill of Rights is that the rights are not *granted* by the Constitution, but merely *recognized* by it. No change to the Constitution itself will ever change our natural rights. To do so would be folly.

35 posted on 12/11/2009 8:03:00 AM PST by cizinec
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