In this concluding article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Amendment 8’s Denunciation of Cruel and Unusual Punishments Amendment 8 prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. But what did the framers mean by “cruel and unusual”? No one knows because the framers never defined this […]
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 10
Posted: 5th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 8, Bible's civil judgments, capital punishment, constitution, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, humanism, living document, righteous judgments, stoining, Supreme Court
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 6
Posted: 7th June 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 3, Biblical court, constitution, constitutional framers, Constitutional Republic, Judicial Branch, judiciary, lawyers, Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court
In this article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 3’s Judicial Usurpation On June 27, 2005, in Van Orden v. Perry, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas declared, “All told, this Court’s jurisprudence leaves courts, governments, and believers and nonbelievers alike confused—an observation that […]