Warp wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
>> As it should be, but states do it for a variety of reasons. The easiest
>> to understand is that individual laws can not contradict the
>> constitution, but amendments to it can. So, should the government want
>> to push through a law that they know would violate certain rights set
>> out in the constitution, and have voting power to get it done, an
>> amendment is the better way to go.
> 
>   Doesn't that make the whole point of having a constitution kind of moot?
> 
>   "We don't like this part of the constitution. No problem, we'll just add
> an amendment which changes it." So what's the point in having a constitution
> in the first place?
> 

Which is probably one of the reasons why there was so much fuss about an 

written one. </smugness>

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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