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IANAL, so I'll just ask: has the SCOTUS made rulings that they justified based on the Declaration of Independence rather than the U.S. Constitution?
by DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
IANAL, so I'll just ask: has the SCOTUS made rulings that they justified based on the Declaration of Independence rather than the U.S. Constitution?
- eesmith 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarationism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarationism . I also found http://www.members.tripod.com/candst/doisussc.htm http://www.members.tripod.com/candst/doisussc.htm which says "that there are at least 100 United States Supreme Court cases that mention the words "Declaration of Independence" somewhere in the dicta of that opinion. Yet, not one single case can be found where the authority for the holding in that case was the Declaration of independence."