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Old March 17, 2010, 10:12 AM   #16
Tennessee Gentleman
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Originally Posted by LanceOregon
You are saying that the 14th Amendment somehow negated the Bill of Rights?
No, the 14th amendment attempted to apply the BoRs to the states which a previous Supreme Court decision; Barron vs. Baltimore 1833 had said that the BoRs did not apply to the states.

The Slaughterhouse Cases, however, said the 14th Amendment protected the "privileges or immunities" conferred by virtue of the federal United States citizenship to all individuals of all states within it, but not those privileges or immunities incident to citizenship of a state. That case is still precedent even though many think it wrongly decided.

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Originally Posted by LanceOregon
It would almost seem that the constitution is now meaningless and irrelevant.
The Constitution means what the Supreme Court and the Congress says it means not what we individuals think it means.

Otherwise, we would have anarchy with each and every person deciding what was constitutional or not.

Every time you here somebody say on TFL that some law or regulation is unconstitutional and there is not a court case to back that up then you are merely expressing your opinion but the only opinion that counts is that of the court.
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