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"I do not think Lincoln violated the Constitution or ignored the rights of the southern states." First of all, other than the possible right to secede (which I’ll address in a moment) Lincoln bent over backwards NOT to infringe in...
Absolutely. The framers of the Constitution, including Madison, Hamilton, and Washington, had watched the country deteriorate under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles had left the states fully sovereign, while the central governm...
Well there really is no place in the constitution that deals with marriage. Its simply not in there! BUT, the Tenth Amendment grants the states powers not reserved for the federal government expressly in the constitution. The amendment read...
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For the most part, yes. Even the bill of rights was originally for the states. However, the totally ineffective Continental Congress government taught them that there also needed to be a central government so the executive branch was create...
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The supremacy clause, which is found in Article VI, Section 2 of the constitution and reads as follows: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be ...
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Some opponents of the proposed constitutional amendment argue that it would inappropriately intrude into the domain of the states. Marriage, they say, has traditionally been governed by state law, and so if Massachusetts or some other state...
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The purpose of the United States Constitution is not to empower the citizens but to encumber the federal government with rules about what it CANNOT do to its citizens. You can say or print anything you want PROVIDED that you do it RESPONSIB...
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Melanie Wooten raises some important questions. A Rose by Any Other Name (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Totalitarianism) By Rattlesnake Central - Melanie Wooten “United States corporation” and the District of Columbia Organic Act o...
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Yeah, but there are laws against sodomy and that's not in there. When the founding fathers were drafting this piece they weren't thinking of this sort of thing. If these amendments did as you're suggesting, someone would have long ago broug...
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The main influences on the U.S. Constitution were the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the English Bill of Rights.
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