Posted on 06/04/2009 5:59:45 AM PDT by epow
On Wednesday, June 3, the National Rifle Association filed a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of NRA v. Chicago. The NRA strongly disagrees with yesterday's decision issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, holding that the Second Amendment does not apply to state and local governments
If your desire to nullify all state constitutions transpired, that would be one of the likely consequences.
Answer the question...
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." - Albert Gallatin, October 7, 1789
It's your Judicial activism that attempts to turn this on it's head.
Were they appealed. The Judicial branch does not actively pursue cases. They do not pull. The cases are pushed. And if no case is pushed, no decision is made. And sometimes even a wrong decision is made.
Regarding the case in question, the NRA is doing exactly the right thing. Let’s see if the court reciprocates.
Of course he hasn't. He will not answer mine either.
Section 10 - Powers prohibited of StatesWhy am I not surprised that you didn't know that?No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
I had no idea that the Constitutional Convention was open to the public at large. Festival seating?
Like silently inserting state constitutional revisions in the Bill of Rights without so stating?
Hhhmmm... That makes EVERY Federal law on the books illegitimate.
I think I like that idea...
Mojave will not answer my question either.
I answered your assertion.
Right?
Silly Roscoe. Still trying to swim in the deep end without your arm floaties...
Our Bill of Rights was not ratified, or even written, in 1789.
You changed the quote. And you just got busted. Again.
See you in the reeducation camps.
It seems you have no idea of the Constituional Covnetion or representative democracy at all.
I see your problem though. You see:
"We the Founders of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."when the ddocument actually states:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
You avoided the question.
Here it is again.
Can the state pass any laws it see fit to, regardless of rights enumerated under the US Constitution?
Shredding the Constitution to advance goals isn't the right thing.
The Constitutional Convention was limited to delegates appointed by the states. You knew that, right?
>>Shredding the Constitution to advance goals isn’t the right thing.<<
I firmly agree!
However, what has that to do with what the NRA is doing?
Mucking foron...
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