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This is misdirection and you know it. By that same token, if we were around at the time, I could also point to the slaves. The reckless interpretation of the U
by eksith 13y ago
This is misdirection and you know it. By that same token, if we were around at the time, I could also point to the slaves.
The reckless interpretation of the U.S. bill of rights is already precariously close to violating the Geneva Conventions (on many cases, it probably has already been violated. I.E. Guantanamo Bay). The idea that you're somehow exempt from what is commonly regarded as decent and fair treatment of another human being based on a narrow (and arguable) technicality is appalling.
- ubernostrum 13y agoJefferson would have had each state be its own absolute arbiter of the Constitution, and free to ignore the Constitution if the state felt like doing so. Ron Paul arguably holds the same views now (with his various attempts to make state actions immune from federal judicial review). For both of them, history furnishes examples of why -- even if we hold that the Supreme Court and federal judicial review was a bad idea -- this is also a bad idea.