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Hurricane Bruiser
05-25-2010, 03:59 PM
Great article by Robert Levy

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37703.html

Here is a portion:


Rand Paul has taken a principled — but politically incorrect — position, for which he’s being pilloried. A look behind the 6-second-sound-bite version of his position might be helpful.

Despite how his comments have played, Paul has said he is glad that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. He accepts the Civil Rights Act as settled U.S. law — not to be revisited by the courts despite possible constitutional infirmities.

But, though the Supreme Court upheld the 1964 act, the law has a disputable constitutional pedigree.

The Civil Rights Act addresses the conduct of private individuals, so it is not easily shoehorned into the 14th Amendment, which constrains only government conduct. And the act has nothing to do with reducing state-imposed obstacles to the free flow of interstate trade — so it should not have been legitimized under an original understanding of the commerce clause.

doctor jones
05-26-2010, 12:01 AM
Excellent read!

Harald
05-26-2010, 12:13 AM
Politico chickened out and changed the title to 'Rand Paul's principled stumble

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=246726

At 4:51AM EDT it used to be called

An inconvenient constitutional truth

By ROBERT A. LEVY | 5/25/10 4:51 AM EDT

sailingaway
05-26-2010, 07:06 AM
Politico chickened out and changed the title to 'Rand Paul's principled stumble

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=246726

At 4:51AM EDT it used to be called

An inconvenient constitutional truth

By ROBERT A. LEVY | 5/25/10 4:51 AM EDT

cowards........