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Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag

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From: Lloyd R. Parker
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:55
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Kenneth P. Turvey (kt-alt@SprocketShop.com) wrote:
: On 13 Jun 2001 15:18:19 -0400, Lloyd R. Parker <lparker@emory.edu> wrote:
: >Kenneth P. Turvey (kt-alt@SprocketShop.com) wrote:
: >: 
: >: The Constitution does not give the courts the right to interpret it.
: >
: >It's implicit in the courts being the ones to mete out punishment for any
: >violation of law.
: 
: The people involved in drafting the constitution did not see it as
: implicit.  Why do you?  The supreme court was intended primarily to
: handle conflicts between the states. 

How do you know?

The USSC's first loyalty is to the constitution.  If a law is passed that
contradicts the constitution, all courts must refuse to enforce it.  It's
as simply as that.

: 
: >Sorry, right-wing extremism is out of fashion.
: 
: Hmm... I suppose I think that's a good thing, but I don't think the
: ability to read the constitution has much to do with this.  

Perhaps because you're reading with colored glasses.

: 
: 
: -- 
: Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-alt@SprocketShop.com> 
: --------------------------------------------------------
:   I certainly learned a great deal from 3,000 town hall meetings across
:   my home state of Tennessee over a 16-year period.
:         -- Al Gore (That's one every 46.7 hours)
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From: lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd R. Parker)
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Subject: Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag
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