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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: our government - was Re: Freedom of hate
Message-ID: <1358@ns.network.com>
Date: 5 May 89 22:18:01 GMT
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Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
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In article <930@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> grimesg@magic.UUCP (George Grimes) writes:
:If I recall my 
:college government correctly the supreme court wasn't even granted the 
:authority to interpret the constitution.  

The purpose of the supreme court was to be the final arbiter of the law of
the land.  The constitution is part of (the basis of!) the law of the land.
QED.  

(NOT saying that I like some of the things they've passed off as
"interpretation", though!)

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