Sunday, March 24, 2013

Powers reserved to the people!

George Will has an interesting column on DOMA. He hopes the Supreme Court will strike it down. The tenth amendment says,

“the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

Will concludes,

Liberals praise diversity but generally urge courts to permissively construe the Constitution in order to validate federal power to impose continental uniformities. DOMA is such an imposition. Liberals may be rescued from it by jurisprudence true to conservative principles, properly understood.

Read more here: http://www.humanevents.com/2013/03/21/will-a-matter-of-jurisprudence/

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