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Nitram

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6. All based on an ideosyncratic and distorted right wing reading of our Constitution.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2016, 09:37 AM

Aug 2016

Conservatives should just go ahead and publish their version of the constitution and start claiming that it is the original. It will leave out "well-trained militia" in the 2nd amendment and dispose of the 13th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 24th Amendments. It will revise the 1st Amendment to establish Christianity as a state religion.

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'Constitutional sheriffs' movement promotes defiance of federal laws [View all] struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP

Line in the sand struggle4progress Aug 2016 #1

State actors, including sheriffs, are not required to enforce federal law TeddyR Aug 2016 #2

We very definitely have a system of divided government in the US -- but struggle4progress Aug 2016 #3

Agree 100% TeddyR Aug 2016 #4

The Supremacy Clause SCantiGOP Aug 2016 #5

State officials are not allowed to enforce federal law, but they do have to obey it. Nitram Aug 2016 #7

All based on an ideosyncratic and distorted right wing reading of our Constitution. Nitram Aug 2016 #6

But this isn't a "right wing" reading of the Constitution TeddyR Aug 2016 #8

There's a difference between 'enforcing' federal law and 'defying' federal law. Nitram Aug 2016 #9

I completely agree TeddyR Aug 2016 #10

The OP says they can think they "can keep federal law enforcement agents out of their counties." Nitram Aug 2016 #12

And I agree with you there too TeddyR Aug 2016 #14

This is the same thing as the souvenir citizen dipshittery SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #11

Souvenir citizens? Like, "I went to the Malheur Refuge and all I got was this stupid Nitram Aug 2016 #13

Exactly SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #15