Yes, and the civil war decided that Federal law trumps state law.
Furthermore, I don’t WANT this to be allowable. Ever.
You guys would be screaming bloody murder if a state changed it’s constitution to require that only Imams were allowed to serve in public office. This is no different as far as I’m concerned no matter what my personal religion is.
P.S. The Alabama state constitution also said that blacks did not get equal rights, but we found that it didn’t wash Federally either. When it comes to FEDERALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS, United States constitution trumps State Constitution. The author of this piece makes an excellent point that we enjoy that when the SCOTUS upholds the FEDERALLY protected right of the 2nd amendment over local and state attempts to remove that right from us.
Federally protected rights refers to rights protected from the power of the Federal Government.
The State Constitution is the appropriate place to put limits on the powers of your State.
Extending federally protected rights to every level of government essentially transforms all levels of government into mere agents of Washington, because their freedom of action is nothign more or less than whatever Washignton will allow. This is the anti-freedom situation today.
The US is supposed to be a decentralized compact of free States, not a centralized leviathan.
Or maybe this sort of thing would finally wake people up. Then again, maybe not. Pass the soma, eh?
the civil war decided that Federal law trumps state law
The Civil War decided that the liberal northeastern states would be allowed to loot and hold sway over the rest of the country, and do so under the color of law and right, lead by the finacial power of New York and Boston. The maps of relative wealth of the states before and after the war, and lasting up to this day bear this out quite well. The war took states like Lousiana, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, which had formerly lead in per capital wealth down to the bottom, while raising up New England, New York, etc.
If you doubt this is still going on, just look at the TARP law, which sucked wealth from the people in "flyover land" and deposited it with bankers in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
I have to disagree with your point, simply because “being elected to public office” is not a right granted to every person under the constitution.
The USSC has not Stated that the Second Amendment applies to the state, only to DC (which is not a state by fed)