Re: CHAT: French in Louisiana and Spanish in California (was CHAT: The EU expands)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 3, 2004, 0:36 |
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On Sun, 02 May 2004 18:16:36 -0500, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
wrote:
> (Remember, we're a federal republic, so State governments have a lot of
> freedom in deciding policy that the Federal government can't touch; the
> Tenth Amendment states that in theory.)
Except that particular little wrinkle was placed on the "de facto
repealed" list (along with the ninth) around 150 years ago, and seems to
be worth exactly zero.
Paul