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Talk:United States Constitution

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-- Sipples 16:31 30 May 2004 (CDT) - Isn't that BLOCKQUOTE purdy, Lest? Good idea putting the Preamble there in the first place. Re: the Constitution link, I kind of like it to the generic one as it was because it's interesting context. It all sort of fits now, I think. (I like your index page, too, at Constitution Text. Although now you probably don't need the "if you're linking here..." disclaimer, because it's a darn useful page.)


Sipples there is a reason to have the separate related links below even if redundant. Having easy reference links for major related sections, even if also threaded in the body text IS SOP on wikipedia and IS useful, especially if/when a body text will be edited and expanded in the future. If you are reading and scroll down to the bottom as you read (in a particularly lengthy article as it is expanded) you do not want to force the reader to scroll back through the text to find the threaded link in the body of the text. There is a REASON this is done by me and done all the time on wikipedia. It isn't me being "catty". Lestatdelc 12:19, 30 May 2004 (PDT)


First of all, I apologize if editorial discussions are not welcome here.

Do we want to mention the Right to Marry as the "11th right?" As much as I violently agree with gay marriage, I can think of at least two other rights that merit co-equal status -- the right to equal protection regardless of race (14th Amendment) and the right to equal protection regardless of gender (not an Amendment yet). To be blunt, this statement robs this article of a lot of gravitas.

How about this: let's mention that since the Constitution was passed, other rights have since been discovered -- the right to equal protection regardless of race, the right for women to vote, the right not to be a hereditary slave -- and that some of the rights that have been discovered have not been encoded properly -- such as the right to equal protection regardless of sex, or the right to marry.

--Centerfielder 11:35, 28 May 2004 (PDT) well, this is the reference section. There's a separate Gay Rights section under Issues and Positions...

Rather than addressing right-to-marriage specifically, I would like to suggest that a general note on "rights enumerated by the constitution vs. rights implied by it vs. restrictions enforced by it". -- Memesis 14:41, 28 May 2004 (PDT)

New State Constitutions article

I created a new State Constitutions article and thus have modified this page accordingly. Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions. Thanks!

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This page was last modified 18:03, 31 October 2006 by dKosopedia user Mike McL. Based on work by dKosopedia user(s) Apascover, Lestatdelc, Sipples, Memesis, Centerfielder and Maxomai. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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