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To: TimF who wrote (74725)	7/3/2008 8:00:01 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543322

>>Absent such legislation or amendment, would you say that the active clause of the law is voided, or at least changed in an important way, by the mere fact of the stated justification in the law becoming obsolete, or being shown to have always been false?<< Tim - Pardon my momentary confusion about the exceptions. I think you were clear, considering the context from your previous post, but I hadn't remembered that. As to the above question, well, our laws are based on what is written in our Constitutions. So I'd say that rather than ignoring what is written there, if it no longer applies, it should be changed, as it was in the example you gave, when the exception involving a motion by the defense for a change of venue was added. - Allen