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      • Stare Decisis Run Amok
        03/30/08
        After the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, the Supreme Court ignored John Bingham's intent to make the first eight amendments enforceable upon the states. Chief Justice Morrison Waite wrote in United States v. Cruikshank (1875) 92 US 542 at 552:
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      • Bill of Rights
        03/28/08
        I was blissfully ignorant of the controversy regarding whether the first eight amendments to the US Constitution apply to the states and local governments. Imagine the shock, no, the horror of discovering the Bill of Rights only protected your rights from Federal government violation but not breache

  • 2007