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To: Polycarp
The Alliance Defense Fund, a national legal organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, said the framers of the Constitution could never have imagined an interpretation finding in the Constitution a right to engage in the act of sodomy.

The framers of the Constitution didn't include the 14th Amendment into the document (obviously enough) upon which this case revolved; however, their inclusion of a clause permitting future amendments implies that they could have imagined that anything may at some point get added to the Constitution...

4 posted on 06/26/2003 8:31:46 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
The framers of the Constitution didn't include the 14th Amendment into the document (obviously enough) upon which this case revolved; however, their inclusion of a clause permitting future amendments implies that they could have imagined that anything may at some point get added to the Constitution...

yes, but through the amendment process, not through judicial fiat with the Supreme Court inventing new rights out of thin air. I, for one, am ready for the revolution against the new tyranny of the left, who have abandoned the constitution altogether. they do not even try to hide thier abandonment of the constitution or rule of law any longer. I no longer have faith in the Supreme Court, or the any of our governmental branches to abide by the constitution or rule of law.

21 posted on 06/26/2003 8:54:00 AM PDT by brownie (Reductio Ad Absurdum, or something like that . . .)
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To: AntiGuv
False. The Framers were not authoring a document under which anything might be made legal. A great deal of the struggle in writing the Constitution was delineating the source of rights and circumscribing what government can do, presumably including the SCOTUS.
33 posted on 06/26/2003 9:14:14 AM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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