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Ernest
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« on: July 05, 2015, 05:04:25 AM » |
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You seem to forget that the court has also stood in the way of legislation over the decades. Citizens United merely harkens back to various 19th cases where corporate personhood and the 14th Amendment were uses to gut various laws regulating corporations. Labor laws were routinely struck down as interference with the right to freely enter into contracts, which is why the Child Labor Amendment was sent to the States and only failed of ratification because the court changed its tune. It struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 So thoroly that when Congress was again in the mood to try and pass similarly sweeping legislation, it had to base the laws on the Commerce Clause of all things.
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