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toddwv

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5. States don't have rights. States aren't people.

Reply to matmar (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2012, 04:37 PM

Jan 2012

States have authority.
That authority originates with people.
That does not mean that these people can do anything they want to other people.
That is why we have Constitutions at the federal level AND the state level.

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