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To: Non-Sequitur
And your arguement is ridiculous any way you want to look at it. You do not decide what is outside the scope of the Constitution. You never have and, fortunately, never will.

Typrical ELITIST mindset...only the courts have the mental capacity to READ the words in that plain document and interpret its meaning. Clearly, murder is wrong by the standards of ETERNAL RIGHT AND WRONG - I don't give a FLIP what the idiots in black robes say about it. They should have been impeached for Roe v. Wade, and Doe and Lawrence.

I will ask you one more time: Does privacy trump life? What does Reason tell you?

531 posted on 01/20/2004 9:21:16 AM PST by exmarine ( sic semper tyrannis)
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To: exmarine
Typrical ELITIST mindset...only the courts have the mental capacity to READ the words in that plain document and interpret its meaning.

No, only the courts have the jurisdiction to do that. They have been vested with that power by the Constitution and we hope that the best legal minds are appointed to those position, and we place our trust in them that they will interpret the law the way the founders would have done. We do this because the alternative is too ridiculous and frightening - the idea that each individual can decide what is legal and what is not. That individual states can decide to ban guns while others do not, other states can decide that Arabs should he rounded up without warrant and other states may not. That people may decide that God wants all the Jews dead. I don't agree with every decision the court has made. I am downright opposed to some of them. But that's the way things go and the alternative is, by my way of thinking, even more frightening. They tend to get it right more often than not, IMHO, while I haven't detected the same track record with a lot of their opponents on this thread.

535 posted on 01/20/2004 9:35:45 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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