On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:45:12 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Any law can be passed, it's up to someone who wouldn't meet the
>> criteria to challenge it in court.
> 
> But I thought the whole idea of a constitution is that
> anticonstitutional laws can *not* be passed.

No - at least not in the US - laws are passed and then are challenged as 
to whether or not they are constitutional.  Lawmakers don't judge the 
constitutionality of laws they write (though ideally they should create 
laws with an awareness of the constitution) - the judicial branch is 
responsible for making that evaluation, and they only do so on laws that 
have been passed.

Jim

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