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Reply #1: There is no case directly on point
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JackSwift
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Wed Aug-20-03 08:16 PM
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1. There is no case directly on point |
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Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 08:24 PM by JackSwift
and the US Supreme Court has declined to take this case up. The meaning of the constitution for legal and political purposes is defined as what the US Supreme Court says it is. Arguing about what Madison's intentionally vague language means to a layman is meaningless.
Cities has long been prohibited from displaying "creches" at Christmas (a creche being a manger scene). If I were a betting man, I think you will see this court go 7 to 2 against judge Moore with Scalia and Thomas being the two. There is another case that says you can't put up the 10 commandments in a school.
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