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DraxelBethlehem
Duke of New York
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:25 am Posts: 481 Location: Gone.
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Stupid laws
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:27 pm |
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admiraltigerclaw
Chibi-Czar
Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:30 am Posts: 1222 Location: GALAXIUS
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HAH!, like they can ENFORCE that piece of shit.
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:46 pm |
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DraxelBethlehem
Duke of New York
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:25 am Posts: 481 Location: Gone.
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Yeah, but part of it is the principal of the thing
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:49 pm |
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Ultranos
Knight
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:44 pm Posts: 93 Location: Elsewhere
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Actually, there are a whole bunch of laws like that. They're holdovers from colonial days, and nobody's really actually struck them from the books.
On the other hand, they're also totally not enforced.
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:26 am |
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Anony-mouse
Chibi-Czar
Joined: Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:14 pm Posts: 2769 Location: Location, Location!
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Ultranos wrote: Actually, there are a whole bunch of laws like that. They're holdovers from colonial days, and nobody's really actually struck them from the books.
On the other hand, they're also totally not enforced.
Actually, they've all been overturned. Federal law trumps state law. Such a law is unconstitutional and one like it was overturned by the federal courts. This means it is void and any enforcement of the law is a federal crime. This doesn't remove it from the books, it just means it is irrelevant. Here in Oklahoma, there are still segregation laws and sodomy laws on the books. They don't mean anything, but removing them would require legislation that takes time away from more pressing matters.
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:31 pm |
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Ultranos
Knight
Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:44 pm Posts: 93 Location: Elsewhere
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Anony-mouse wrote: Actually, they've all been overturned. Federal law trumps state law. Such a law is unconstitutional and one like it was overturned by the federal courts. This means it is void and any enforcement of the law is a federal crime. This doesn't remove it from the books, it just means it is irrelevant. Here in Oklahoma, there are still segregation laws and sodomy laws on the books. They don't mean anything, but removing them would require legislation that takes time away from more pressing matters.
*facepalm* This is why I shouldn't post to forums before I have caffeine.
Yes, they've been overturned. You're completely correct. I really should have caught that.
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:38 pm |
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Christopher Fiss
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Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:56 pm Posts: 3479 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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More of a historical quirk than an actual worry
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