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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
States don't have the power to pass laws that infringe on the rights of the people. Someone posted the 10th amendment above.

However, these state level laws would have to be declared illegal by a circuit court. And we know what would happen in the 9th Circus.

56 posted on 01/20/2003 5:56:08 AM PST by MrB
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To: MrB
...these state level laws would have to be declared illegal by a circuit court.

What we need is to get the 2nd Amendment incorporated by the Supreme Court as applying to the states. This legalistic incorporation trick the lawyers pulled with the Constitution's Amendments really ticks me off. The Bill of Rights as we call it, is supposed to apply to all citizens of this country, no questions asked.

By the way, what about the 7th Amendment? It has not been repealed and is still there. I know what it says, do you?

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by a jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Getting the 7th Amendment incorporated would really screw the liberal judges...

82 posted on 01/20/2003 6:04:01 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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