At 04:50 PM 2/28/2004 -0600 Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
>> If other
>>states are affraid of "judicial activism", they can amend their own
>>constitutions a lot faster than you can amend the US Constitution.
>
>I think the argument is that without a national amendment in place, any
>State law or amendment to the constitution of an individual State is likely
>to be immediately overturned by the Federal courts, so any effort expended
>to pass a State law or amendment first is likely to be wasted.
Correct. An activist Supreme Court, that at some point in the future that
rules that the US Constitution requires the implementation of same-sex
marriages would nullify all such amendments to the State Constitutions.
JDG
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