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Chas, I'm afraid Mr. Christie is right about the Constitution in this case, and you are dead wrong about it. The Bill of Rights was designed to restrict only the Federal government, not the States. If you'll note, the First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law . . ." Not the States. Not localities. Congress. The States could, and several did, have their own State religions even until the 1840s. States could and did impose restrictions on who could keep and bear arms. And they had every "right" to do so, according to the Constitution. Only until the dubious (the old-fashioned word for "complete crockpot") idea of "incorporation" had dribbled out of the mouths of Supreme Court blackrobes did anyone get the notion that the States could not establish religions, impose restrictions on speech and the ownership and carriage of firearms.
You reject the intent of the Founders in drafting the Constitution if you believe otherwise. I don't mean to convey the idea that I revere those words scrawled in iron-based ink on the dessicated skin of a dead sheep. Because I don't.
Dec 1, 2011, 11:34:23 PM
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