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- House Joint Resolution 494, filed by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, would refuse to acknowledge the force of any judicial ruling on prayer in North Carolina – or indeed on any Constitutional topic:
"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the resolution states.
"Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion," it states.
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forwardslash, maybe this is annoying, but I'm a compulsive speller, not much I can do to stop myself, sorry... it ought to be #separationofwhatnow.