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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: alt.flame
- Subject: Re: Why Clinton
- Message-ID: <ow70TB9w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 12:51:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.220200.4443@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
- > No one fully understands the Constitution. It is a very controversial
- > document.
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- Actually, it's a very simple and straightforward document by comparison with,
- say, the Maastricht Treaty. It's only "controversial" in the sense that the
- US government does not want to implement it.
-
- > What do you think the Supreme court is for?
-
- The Supreme Court is there to decide which bits of the Constitution the
- government is allowed to ignore, of course.
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- mathew
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- "Boy, they were big on crematoriums weren't they?"
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