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From: johnob@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (John Obendorfer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.guns,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,misc.headlines,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Why YOU should help educate your fellow citizens on the Constitution
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Date: 19 Jan 90 18:47:14 GMT
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In article <1990Jan12.230130.9218@xanadu.com> michael@xanadu.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes:
> - The legislation authorizing the declaration of an "Internal Security
>   Emergency" includes provision for interning people who "may be able
>   to" interfere with the government or commerce, and provides that the
>   courts have no jurisdiction over their release until 30 days AFTER
>   the state is ENDED, but provides no limit on the length of the state.
>   (Makes it tough to test the law's constitutionality, eh?)

  This is why, in my humble opinion, that "executive orders" should not have
any force of law, as they seem to do, and that all laws passed by Congress
should go directly to the Supreme Court for a constitutionality check.  This
would solve two problems: it would rid us of any future unconstitutional
laws, and it would drastically reduce the number of laws Congress could
pass in a given year, which in my eyes is a good thing. 

  It seems to me that part of our country's problems comes from the fact
that it is so easy to get a law passed, compared with what it takes to
get a unconstitutional one removed.  (And, for that matter, once an un-
constitutional law is overturned, there is nothing to stop Congress from
reenacting and enforcing it until it is overturned again ... )

  John