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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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No, the states could not do as they please. The states were also
bound
by
the US constitution. And it is a good thing.

Nope.......the original intent of the US Constitution was to limit
federal
powers to those proscribed in the Constitution, as well as defining a
few
certain rights......everything else was left to the states........it
has
only been through 200 years of perversion that the country has become
federalized and thus corrupted.

The fact that several states had official state religions is proof of
that.
The Constitution was intended to be interpreted as it was
written......thus
no "Federally established religion" not the perverted "separation of
church and state" that exists today


The idea that "The Constitution was intended to be interpreted as it was
written" is pure nonsense. First of all, everyone interprets the
consitution, even those who believe we should limit ourselves to its
original meaning. When conservatives say "don;t interpret the
constitution"
they really mean "don;t interpret it differently from the way I
interpret
it." Secondly, the success of the constitution lies in the fact that it
is
a
flexible document. It is just plain silly to think that the framers
expected
the document to be adhered to in a literal word-for-word basis for
hundreds
of years.

Horse****.

There is a reason for the Amendment process defined in the Constitution.

It is ignorance to believe that the original authors DID NOT intend the
Constitution to be adhered to as written or amended


Do you believe the following?

1) States should be able to have slavery if they wish.

No.

2) Gun owners should be limited to the types of guns available when the
constitution was written - flintlocks.

No.

3) Women and blacks should not be able to vote.

Everyone except women

4) Companies can sell horse pee and claim it cures cancer.

If the claim is correct, yes.


These are the consequences of your position on the constitution. Do you
believe them? Do you think they are consistent with American values? If so
then you are at least consistent although a wretched human being. If not
then you need to re-examine your position.

The contstitution has a process for change and it is the amendment process
that is driven by the people through their state legislatures and the
national legislature. The judicial branch was never intended to amend the
constitution all on its own.