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RE: School Choice
(03-04-2009 04:01 PM)Rebel Wrote: Where does the money come from? The taxpayers, no? And the student's parents are taxpayers, right? What if they're religious? I seriously don't see how this is a problem. Then again, I don't think it would be if everything was left up to the states.
By the same token, why not leave the state out of it and let parents pay themselves if they want to go to private schools. I'm not willing to go along for the ride with state finance of religious institutions when the political agenda at hand is precisely to provide state sanction and finance of religion.
(03-04-2009 04:01 PM)Rebel Wrote: Last I checked, the 1st amendment applied to limitations placed on the federal government, not the state government.
I'm not quite sure how or why, but the most complex (i.e. least easily understood) amendment to the constitution says you're wrong (insofar as it changes the scope of everything else in the constitution).
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charter...11-27.html Wrote:AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
*Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
Someone who's at least gone to law school may provide better insight, but the 17 words in bold almost certainly has the biggest and most ambiguous legal impact of any phrase in the constitution.
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