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Old Dec 4, 2002 | 7:28 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BearX220:
In fact its [the Constitution's] guarantees of US citizenship are so murky, the US Supreme Court has its hands full 200+ years later trying to figure out how to apply them to modern situations. </font>
And a lot of the time, the nine wise lawyers on the Supreme Court disagree by 5-4 or 6-3 votes about the extent of those rights. If they can't figure it out unanimously, there's no reason to expect anyone else to know.


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