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To: Alter Kaker; JGT

The Wallace stand against the feds is not an equivalent circumstance at all to this.

The 14A gave the feds ONE area of valid interference with the states: prohibit state-sponsored segregation. So Wallace was out of line and the feds were on solid constitutional grounds.

This is entirely different. The feds have NO constitutional authority to interfere with marriage and their unconstitutional acts and decision must be nullified by Alabama and the other states.

Either the states and the people of this great country reassert the Constitution as the Law of the Land and the ONLY standard for valid federal government action or Marxist tyranny prevails.


48 posted on 02/09/2015 8:29:30 AM PST by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: PapaNew
The 14A gave the feds ONE area of valid interference with the states: prohibit state-sponsored segregation. So Wallace was out of line and the feds were on solid constitutional grounds.

I think that's a reasonable historical interpretation of the 14th Amendment, but not one that currently holds weight even from the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Whether rightly or wrongly, the Supreme Court has taken an expansive view of the power of the 14th Amendment. In the end, federal courts always trump state courts in areas where they share jurisdiction so we have to live with the federal interpretation. Don't like it? Get better judges.

59 posted on 02/09/2015 8:53:39 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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