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Old November 12, 2002, 11:29 PM   #222
ddelange
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Then I guess the word of the Supreme court is not the same as the word of God
I never said it was.

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Ok, so if the SCOTUS decision is not going to be the bar we measure something by
I didn't say that either. It IS the bar by which we measure the constitutionality of laws. This is getting redundant to the point of being absurd.
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I guess we'll need something else, how about rights?
"rights" are granted to the people in the Constitution, the Supreme Court still interprets the extent of those rights. If not the Supreme Court, I keep asking, then who? You?
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