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Ohio State wants to trademark "THE"
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<blockquote data-quote="Purp" data-source="post: 2743539" data-attributes="member: 12852"><p>It's counterintuitive that a founding document can supersede the states that created it. I know the reconstruction amendments dented that notion quite a bit, but states were always supposed to be part of the compact until or unless they believed it no longer served their interests. Believe it or not, several New England states nearly seceded before the southern states ever moved to do so and well before "Civil War" was fought to prevent the southern states from seceding. </p><p></p><p>Moreover, it doesn't make sense that the U.S. Constitution would supersede state governments when the U.S. government and the separate state governments have authority over totally different aspects of governance. The U.S. government only has authority over those things the Constitution says it does. Everything else is left to the states to govern after those states transferred those other rights to the general government. Since their jurisdictions can't possibly overlap it doesn't make sense that it's possible one could overrule the other on any singular issue. The U.S. Constitution should only be a limit on the U.S. government and no other government. </p><p></p><p>Finally, the 1st amendment is, indeed, very clear that "Congress shall make no law" and "Congress" refers only to the U.S. Congress and not that of any state. Consequently, no state falls under the jurisdiction of the 1st amendment. States can only be restricted from establishing an official religion if the states' respective constitutions forbid it. The fact that many states did have official religions after the Constitution was ratified (and it was totally legal) is absolutely relevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Purp, post: 2743539, member: 12852"] It's counterintuitive that a founding document can supersede the states that created it. I know the reconstruction amendments dented that notion quite a bit, but states were always supposed to be part of the compact until or unless they believed it no longer served their interests. Believe it or not, several New England states nearly seceded before the southern states ever moved to do so and well before "Civil War" was fought to prevent the southern states from seceding. Moreover, it doesn't make sense that the U.S. Constitution would supersede state governments when the U.S. government and the separate state governments have authority over totally different aspects of governance. The U.S. government only has authority over those things the Constitution says it does. Everything else is left to the states to govern after those states transferred those other rights to the general government. Since their jurisdictions can't possibly overlap it doesn't make sense that it's possible one could overrule the other on any singular issue. The U.S. Constitution should only be a limit on the U.S. government and no other government. Finally, the 1st amendment is, indeed, very clear that "Congress shall make no law" and "Congress" refers only to the U.S. Congress and not that of any state. Consequently, no state falls under the jurisdiction of the 1st amendment. States can only be restricted from establishing an official religion if the states' respective constitutions forbid it. The fact that many states did have official religions after the Constitution was ratified (and it was totally legal) is absolutely relevant. [/QUOTE]
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