The Federal Courts
As we prepare for the last 2 weeks of class and a crash course on our federal court system, I thought this article was appropriate for several reasons.
1. It stands a good chance to end up in a federal court.
2. It gets us thinking and talking again about the US Constitution (which will be a focus for us again as we look at Landmark Supreme Court cases).
3. The law that this community passed is pretty amazing.
Check it out!
Mr. Thompson
Manassas Defends New Rule On Who Can Live Together
posted by erdecker @ 7:13 AM
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we're trying to do our part to discourage illegal immigration and we have found that overcrowding generally or very frequently disproportionately involves illegal immigrants, so that's why we tightened the rules."
This may be a stretch of assumtion..but I believe this method of problme solving will be seen in the future with other important issues that are hard to control/solve, such as gay marriage. If "generally" speaking neighborhoods with a majority of gay couples don't pay their taxes well, change the definition of "couple". If gay couples generally don't pay their taxes change the definition of "partnership". The definition of "marriage" is already in question. I have a hard time deciding what the right course of action in these situations would be. I liked how Tina Liebling addressed the issue of gay marriage. She said it should be up to the church to decide if they would "marry" the couple. So maybe this was the right way to do it, changing the definition just in that certain area...I don't know. However, can this solution be that great when it goes against the "family and privacy" in the 14th amendment" according to Jonathan Turley. .....can we just change the definition of "abortion, killing, murder, etc too?
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