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To: epicure who wrote (73829)6/27/2008 11:20:46 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543219
 
My own take on the "framer's intent" arguments are that it's a waste. There is, finally, no serious way to know. Between trying to determine what's in the mind of someone who wrote, of a congress who passed, and of states that ratified, it's pretty well a waste.

For me, the argument belongs at a much broader level. This is Bush v Gore all over. SC justices who claim to want a judiciary that respects the wishes of legislative bodies--those horrible activist judges who don't--are simply acting out their own policy views as against legislative bodies.

So they should own up and argue on the same grounds everyone else does. A living and breathing constitution.



To: epicure who wrote (73829)7/1/2008 9:24:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543219
 
If you look at the literal meaning of the document the exact opposite of your claim is clear. Its clear its the right of the people not the state, both from the clear words of the amendment itself and from what we know about the writers intentions.


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