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Foreign Laws

Trying to use foreign law to render court decisions in the U.S. is like trying to play Monopoly using the rules from Risk.
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Anchor Babies and Foreign Laws

Foreign laws are made by foreign leaders using foreign methods to meet foreign needs. While there are certainly elements common to all humanity, there are also regional variations based on geography, culture, and other factors that cannot allow a cookie-cutter mentality toward shaping laws. … Foreign law might work for foreign countries, but it often goes against our laws, our traditions, our culture, our Constitution, and our liberty. … Using foreign ideas to influence American court decisions thus bypassing the people’s elected representatives is a subversion of the sovereignty of the people and is (in my mind) close to treason. Continue reading

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Law of unintended consequences

Every law has unintended consequences. I just thought of a possible one for the Obamacare. Continue reading

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Questions We Should Ask About a Constitutional Convention

There have been some who have said that we need to call a Constitutional Convention… others have wondered if such a convention would choose to disregard our current Constitution and forge a new one, as the first Constitutional Convention.
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H.R. 3200 (the healthcare bill) Is Unconstitutional Ex Post Facto Law.

This bill would retroactively nullify any policy made on or after January 1, 2009. Could someone explain to me how this is not an unconstitutional ex post facto law? Continue reading

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