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Originally Posted by nofnway
I was also shocked to see the dissenting judge saying that the constitution does not apply in D.C. because it is not a state? Which part of the constitution do you not want to apply? That could be pretty ugly if carried out to the extreme.
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why are you shocked?
Originally the Bill of Rights only applied to the feds.
Then the 14th amendment passed.
So we think the Bill of Rights applies to the States (I don't think *all* of the rights have been found to apply, btw).
DC isn't a state.
The minority opinion is most likely the correct legal interpretation.
It's definately factually correct.
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Last edited by smooth; 03-12-2007 at 05:06 PM..
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