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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« on: March 20, 2010, 11:40:39 PM »
A friend and I were discussing this, in reference to health care, and I couldn't remember a specific example that would definitively answer this for me.  I feel like this is something I should know, but I honestly can't remember.
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2010, 01:43:05 AM »
Quote from: Stranger in a strange land on March 24, 2010, 01:35:12 AM
yes: this is why, for instance, the numerous racist provisions of the Alabama constitution can't be enforced.

Well normally racial stuff is a Federal Constitution issue (and I knew that the federal Constitution trumped state constitutions - I just couldn't remember about federal statutes).
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