In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/09/2005
at 02:00 PM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I had a lawyer friend who was able to find a case where that
>amendment was enforced, believe it or not. So it's not quite dead.
It's not dead, but the effect of the 14th Amendment was to make the
Bill of Rights binding on the states, not just on the Federal
government, and to give the Federal government the authority to
enforce the 14th Amendment on the states. That made the states less
autonomous than they had been. Subsequent court decisions also shifted
the balance of power.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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