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Comment Re:One space (Score 1) 814

When I was in Journalism in high school, we never used two spaces. The reason I was told to use one space was to make articles shorter. And since shorter articles take up less space meaning, we could fit more stuff into our papers without having to add more pages (which drove up the costs significantly).

Luckily for me, I could use find and replace in Word to replace all my double spaces with single spaces.

Comment Re:Awesome thread ... (Score 1) 698

Okay, time for a quick high-school civics refresher. The basis of law in the United States all derives from the U.S. constitution. While the 10th amendment to that constitution does grant the states and the people a lot of latitude, it explicitly places the protections of the rest of the constitution as superior to any laws that might be passed by the states (or any lower level)...

Unfortunately, it didn't start our that way.

Originally, the US Constitution only limited the power of the Federal goverment. Except for a few specific cases, the States were not limited in any way by the US Constitution. Wiki has a good article on this: Incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Further examples of this include US vs Cruikshank and Barran vs Baltimore.

Today, thanks to the use of the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause, the US Supreme court has slowly reined in some of the States' powers. See Justice Hugo Black.

We can still see this process occuring today. Take the DC vs Heller case. The US Supreme Count found that the District of Columbia could not deny 2nd amendment rights to its residents. But, this ruling applies only to DC and not the rest of the nation.

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