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Old 04-16-09, 06:20 PM   #16
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Zacstar - States Rights a "new" idea?

I'm sorry - but the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified December 15th, 1791. That would make the idea about.. oh... 217 years old, plus a few months. Somehow that doesn't seem all that "new" to me. Instead, it seems the states, and the people in them, have had enough of it to actually read a little bit of how our system of government is supposed to work and figured out they have some rights that they choose to utilize.

If 217 years old is a "new" idea - then I guess the idea that the Constitution is a "living" document open to interpretation using foreign laws is barely born. I don't know about you - but I think I would rather listen to the wisdom of a 217 year "NEW" idea than the ramblings of a freshly born judicial activist idea that doesnt even hold water under the light of common sense.
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