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novapsycheI'm not the best at reading legalese, but here's the meat of the matter:
In interpreting and applying the Constitution of the United States, a court of the United States may not rely upon any constitution, law, administrative rule, Executive order, directive, policy, judicial decision, or any other action of any foreign state or international organization or agency, other than English constitutional and common law up to the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
Well, that's at least some of the meat.
Would this mean that all case law after the Constitution was ratified would be useless?
(the text of the bill)
Oh, and of the authors of this bill, I've heard of Brownback, who was recently mentioned on dailykos as a potential GOP candidate in 2008. Dailykos says he's as rightwing as they come.
In interpreting and applying the Constitution of the United States, a court of the United States may not rely upon any constitution, law, administrative rule, Executive order, directive, policy, judicial decision, or any other action of any foreign state or international organization or agency, other than English constitutional and common law up to the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
Well, that's at least some of the meat.
Would this mean that all case law after the Constitution was ratified would be useless?
(the text of the bill)
Oh, and of the authors of this bill, I've heard of Brownback, who was recently mentioned on dailykos as a potential GOP candidate in 2008. Dailykos says he's as rightwing as they come.