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Department of Education over how to interpret a 1997 federal statute prohibiting states from reducing their funding for kids with disabilities from year to year.

federal statute purports to empower attorneys general to concede that

federal statute (i.e., the creation of federal common law may be

The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

When a federal statute both survives the bicameralismand-presentment process and complies with the Constitution's substantive provisions, it becomes "the supreme Law of the Land," and the Supremacy Clause precludes the justices from voting to invalidate that statute solely on the ground that it conflicts with an earlier-decided Supreme Court precedent.

If passed, the resolution would be unconstitutional, since the Constitution can only be changed legally by amendment, not state or federal statute.

That is, courts may not "imply" funding requirements into a federal statute that have not been plainly imposed by Congress.

One federal law-enforcement source said prosecutors are seeking to use a federal statute that makes it illegal to "scheme ...

First, it said, Congress specifically authorized states to adopt more restrictive standards than those in the federal statute.

It is quoted on page 15 of your October 2006 issue [in the article entitled: Three Manitoba Pioneer Women: A Legacy of Servant-Leadership], and on at least six web sites, as if it is the actual wording of an old federal statute. In fact it is not from any statute, but a humorous summary of parts of some old laws.