These comments just got me blocked:
FB Friend: The Supremacy clause says that any law, state or federal, that violates the US Constitution or Bill of Rights is valid.
Me: FB Friend, Article VI (the Supremacy Clause) is a limiting measure. It refers only to the limited authorities listed in the federal Constitution and any laws made in pursuance thereof. Everything else -- everything else -- is under the purview of the individual States.
And you may not want to hear this, but the federal Bill of Rights, barring a small portion of the 5th amendment that is listed in the 14th, is a restriction on the federal government only, and not the States.
The purpose of the federal Bill of Rights was articulated in the Preamble to the BoR, which was authored by the 1st Congress and sent along with the proposed amendments to every State delegation. It is this understanding that the States asked for and agreed to, and it is the same understanding that the SCOTUS upheld for over 135 years, even a half century after --after-- the 14th was ratified and implemented.
We have all been wrongly programmed through our government controlled educations to believe that the federal government and its judges are superior to the States, and by accepting that we disregard the fact that there are 50 different States, each with a Constitution, each with a Bill of Rights, and they are meaningful.
FB Friend: Article VI is very clear.... (C/P copy of Article VI)
Me: Yes it is... "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; "
Me: FB Friend, question:
Why did States like North Carolina and Rhode Island, which refused to ratify the Constitution - in one case refusing to even hold a vote over it - because they thought the new government would have too much power, all of the sudden change their minds and decide to ratify only after a Bill of Rights was offered? Do you think it was because the federal Bill of Rights gave the new government MORE power?
Of course not. It was quite the opposite.
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Oh well...
